What is wrong with my computer? D:

[Crius]

I have been getting blue screens of death quite frequently lately but I don't know why. I have used memtest to check my memory and it ran through to 100% without any errors. I didn't let it go past 200% because I figured any thing large enough to cause blue screens would pop up in the first or second pass. I should say that I used the memtest that can be run in the windows os and not one that has to be burned from a cd and booted off of, so any memory in use by the os was not tested.

The blue screens of the death that I have gotten are: memory management and bad header pool. there were others but I didn't write them down because I'm dumb xD

finally, I've had some problems when I boot up my computer.

1. the color schemes that I have selected will change back to the windows default color and one time it changed to the classic windows theme.

2. sometimes i will start it up and there will be just a black screen with my mouse on it. it stays on the screen without actually loading the desktop

3. One time while booting up I got an error, something about how the login service didn't work because I didn't have permission. so i clicked 'ok' and then it bluescreened.

After enough restarts (usually 1 or 2) my desktop will load just fine and everything will work great, but then I try to open something or close something and it bluescreens. It seems pretty random as to what kills it, I haven't pinned it to a specific program yet. Once it died when i was playing skyrim and i tried to open my map and another time when I was just trying to start up planetside 2

thanks for any help you can provide in advance, I'd really like to get this figured out since I just spent 600$ upgrading this thing less than a month ago.

Well I decided to run the memtest again and as soon as it started it came up with this error: "pair 934154424 is unable to store values correctly. Computer is unable to store data in ram correctly." And then the computer promptly froze >.< . Soo, yeah one of my ram sticks is bad. I'd still like to know what made it bad though what are some things that can kill ram? nothing is overclocked.

 

[Velgen]

Ya if I remember right the free memtest can only test 2GB of memory at once, so if you have 8 GB of RAM you have to let it test till 400% if you are running one instance of it. Now you can run multiple instances of it, and I suggest doing so to speed things up.

 

[Crius]

I did, I already figured out which stick was bad and took it out. computers running fine now. My only question is, how did this happen? How do I prevent this from happening again?

 

[Gilles]

RAM, from my limited experience, isn't usually what goes in a computer. Probably just a faulty stick that eventually kicked the bucket. Power supplies can damage other parts, but I don't see how it would affect the RAM.

 

[Crius]

Alright, well now it's time to get a replacement. Here's the two I had before http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148544. If you look at the specs, they are duel channel. If I remember right that means that the sticks run slower if they don't have their twin right? If that is the case could http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148539 be a suitable replacement or do i have to go out and buy a whole new set if I don't want my performance to plummet?

 

[Zakamutt]

Check out of your RAM has a warranty. Unless there's some heat (or static, but how the hell would that happen?) problem in your case, this really shouldn't happen.

 

[deathismyfriend]

RAM can go bad for many reasons the main ones being ( not in order). power surges, mishandling ( 1/32 spark of what the eye can see can damage RAM), overheating (due to dust, fan damaged, fan running slow, or not enough airflow around the RAM). and finally although this does not happen often w any of the better RAM developers is faulty RAM.