Re: Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI
Arlen Holder <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 03:42:04 -0400, Andy wrote: > What i would do is add memory one slot at a time until you get the blue > screen of death again then remove the last stick of memory and if it goes > away you have found the bad stick of memory and yes they can go bad in time. > Especially the cheap off brand ram that is sold for a low price. > I only use PNY for my systems as i don't game. Hi Andy, I just snapped this screenshot of what I'm testing right now: o <https://i.postimg.cc/GpGdHnxs/bsod213.jpg> I want to thank you as I very much appreciate & much need your advice. o Particularly because the memory passed a MEMTEST86v4 24-hour test I'm gonna hone in on those memory cards... or those memory slots on the MB o Since I've almost exhausted all the testing I can do on the drivers I've been getting these BSOD's since December of last year, where I haven't yet pinned it down to the cause, but about the only consistent fact is that "juggling" the memory cards, seems to make the next boot more reliable after any given BSOD. That is, if I get a BSOD and then just reboot, I've documented in this thread that often, it could takes hours of reboot attempts; but if I simply "juggle" the memory cards, then the _next_ reboot attempt usually works. This "juggling" can be that I change the order of the four 4GB memory cards; or that I put only one card in, where right now I have card #3 in bank #2, but that was just a random selection after the last BSOD. o <https://i.postimg.cc/GpGdHnxs/bsod213.jpg> Interestingly, it has been, oh, maybe over a week since I did that, without any BSOD (and I've been running driver verifier & CPU stress testing all along). What I'll do on my next boot, is, as you suggested, _add_ another memory card, and then test for at least a week. If that goes well, I'll add another card, and test for a week. And then add the last card & test. If the BSOD happens, I "may" have found a bad memory card, which I can then further test alone by MEMTEST86v4 (for BIOS) or by some other methods. -- I much appreciate the advice of others because BSOD diagnostics are key.