PC Experiencing Random Blue Screens

[DriedSponge]

Hi there,

My friend is experiencing some issues with his Windows 10 PC randomly blue screening. The blue screens started happening couple days after he added an internal SSD for extra storage. Even after removing the SSD to see if that was the issue, it was still blue screening.

Here are some of the stop codes he was getting on the blue screen:

• IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
• SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
• UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION
• CACHE_MANAGER
• MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (at least three times)

He already tried a complete clean reinstall of Windows 10 on his PC but that did not stop the issue. The crashes are pretty random, he cannot tell what causes it. Hes said that some apps start behaving weird before crash. I ran MemTest86 on his PC and it had over 160 errors after two passes. This leads me to believe that the issue stems from faulty ram, but I just wanted to make sure others agreed before telling him to make a purchase.

Here is his PC build:

• AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
• MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX
• 32GB (4x8) G.Skill f4-3200C16-8GVKB
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 EAGLE 8GB

Thanks in advance!

[xAcid9]

Yup, ram problem. Try isolate the problematic stick. 

[DriedSponge]

33 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Yup, ram problem. Try isolate the problematic stick. 

Awesome, thank you. Would you recommended testing each individual stick using memtest, or just removing sticks until his PC stops blue screening?

[Blasty Blosty]

52 minutes ago, DriedSponge said:

Awesome, thank you. Would you recommended testing each individual stick using memtest, or just removing sticks until his PC stops blue screening?

Remove all but 1 stick, see if it boots. If yes, test it

Rinse and repeat until you find the faulty one(s)

 

Or just buy new RAM

[DriedSponge]

Thanks for the help everyone!