blue screen memory management, driver fail

Anonymous

original title: bsod, blue screen of death, memory management, driver fail

I have just built a new PC, by ordering everything off scan.org.uk. Ever since I have first loaded up the PC it has frequently crashed on start-up. The desktop will show, then either a tone will play through the speakers and it will blue screen, or a box will come up informing me that a program has crashed (ipoint.exe, ccc.exe and others). The most common bsod is memory management, but there have been others. The computer ONLY crashes on start-up, and never when it has successfully loaded up. This problem does not appear every time I boot up, but it is still really annoying. Sometimes, after crashing, windows says it cannot restart and goes into start-up repair, this restores windows and then runs chkdisk. Sometime, but rarely, chkdisk will remove 2 or 3 registry keys and replace them. Please help, this is SO annoying.

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Anonymous

2010-08-08T17:47:22+00:00

Hi,

See the methods in my message above posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:52 PM.

Note :

Memory tests do not catch all errors such as mismatched memory (possible even for sticks

that appear to be identical) and when faster memory is placed in system behind slower memory.

So it is best to also swap sticks in and out to check for those even if all memory tests fail to show

a problem.

There is also information on using the memory testing in Windows 7.

Only way to be sure the problem is memory related is to swap some in and out or even use

memory that is known to be good and see if the same problems occur.

And there can be other hardware and software issues that causes errors that seem to be

memory which are not.

Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience : Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.
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Anonymous

2010-08-08T17:09:49+00:00

I have tried memtest 86+ - no errors

windows memory test - no errors

But there must be something wrong with my ram as even with all the drivers disabled it still crashed.
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Anonymous

2010-08-08T17:08:52+00:00

does anyone know of any other free memory test, that could also possible test graphics card ram as well as normal ram?
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Anonymous

haha i wish

cancel what i just said, but new crash this time

Dump File	Crash Time	Bug Check String	Bug Check Code	Parameter 1	Parameter 2	Parameter 3	Parameter 4	Caused By Driver	Caused By Address	File Description	Product Name	Company	File Version	Processor	Computer Name	Full Path	Processors Count	Major Version	Minor Version
080810-26145-01.dmp	08/08/2010 17:51:06	MEMORY_MANAGEMENT	0x0000001a	0x00041790	0xc08026c0	0x0000ffff	0x00000000	ntkrnlpa.exe	ntkrnlpa.exe+b9b2d	NT Kernel & System	Microsoft® Windows® Operating System	Microsoft Corporation	6.1.7600.16539 (win7_gdr.100226-1909)	32-bit		C:\Windows\Minidump\080810-26145-01.dmp	8	15	7600
080810-22885-01.dmp	08/08/2010 17:46:36	IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL	0x0000000a	0xc002c708	0x00000000	0x00000000	0x82e8b92b	ntkrnlpa.exe	ntkrnlpa.exe+4682b	NT Kernel & System	Microsoft® Windows® Operating System	Microsoft Corporation	6.1.7600.16539 (win7_gdr.100226-1909)	32-bit		C:\Windows\Minidump\080810-22885-01.dmp	8	15	7600

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Anonymous

2010-08-08T12:51:03+00:00

hi guys

after hearing that it could be a driver issue at startup, and could be related to the amounts of gaming hardware I have, I disabled all startup entries I could in msconfig.exe. I have rebooted the pc twice now, and no bluescreen..... I'll be trying to isolate this problem the whole of today. Hope I find the driver that is causing my computer aggro.
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