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I run Windows 7 64 bit

i5 3570

2 4 gig sticks of Samsung Ram at 1600 Mhz

Asrock promvp mobo

Samsung 840 ssd boot drive and 2 storage hdds

I came home, started up my computer like normal, and after opening up a few tabs and starting a YouTube video, my computer blue screened with the title "memory management" I restarted and it failed to start, so I went into recovery and it asked for a password (I don't have a password) so nothing worked. I restarted, it booted up, I added a password, it blue screened again with the title "irql_not_less_or_equal." Windows ran a hard drive check and then restarted (I assume it was good.) I have been running memtest86 for 3 hours and it has found 19 million errors.

Can I stop the test now? Does this confirm that the problem stems from bad ram? Thanks!

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I came home, started up my computer like normal, and after opening up a few tabs and starting a YouTube video, my computer blue screened with the title "memory management" I restarted and it failed to start, so I went into recovery and it asked for a password (I don't have a password) so nothing worked. I restarted, it booted up, I added a password, it blue screened again with the title "irql_not_less_or_equal." Windows ran a hard drive check and then restarted (I assume it was good.) I have been running memtest86 for 3 hours and it has found 19 million errors.

Can I stop the test now? Does this confirm that the problem stems from bad ram? Thanks!

Thats a lot of errors....but still continue the test...i think its the ram problem....how much old is it...?? 

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Yes, I think that means your RAM is bad.

Try bumping up the RAM voltage a bit or dropping the clocks and raising timings to see if it can help until you replace it.

Thanks but I think I'll just wait it out. Whenever I try to do things like that I screw up and it just causes more issues.

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It's about a year old

ok do few things...first update ur bios...dis would not help in the problem which u are having but still update bios, try installing a fresh copy of ur OS...and then run ur pc for sometime...if u get BSOD again then u should change ur ram...the things i suggested is not the solution bt u can give it a shot... :)

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ok do few things...first update ur bios...dis would not help in the problem which u are having but still update bios, try installing a fresh copy of ur OS...and then run ur pc for sometime...if u get BSOD again then u should change ur ram...the things i suggested is not the solution bt u can give it a shot... :)

nope not necessary ram is dead anyway 

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough it will be believed.

-Adolf Hitler 

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