Blue Screen with readyboost as the cause ?

[kratosaurion7]

Hi, I have a computer that throws blue screens randomly. It happens without cause, sometimes it crashes when loading the BIOS, on the Windows Starting screen, when playing a game, editing a Word document. I managed to get a un-corrupted memory dump and tried to analyse it with windbg.

I can't get a solution because it seems to point toward rdyboost.sys, maybe I am wrong, and I cannot get meaningful results from it.

Can anyone help me debugging this problem ? I suspect it might be the memory since it crashes randomly even before windows is loaded but I am going to try more avenues before buying a new set of RAM.

Here is a link to my dump file : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3087484/MEMORY.DMP

Any help is really appreciated.

 

[womble]

If you think it may be the readyboost you can switch off that service. It was introduced on Vista to allow flash memory to be used as a cache. Now that most people have moved on to 7 and have 2GB and more I can't recall anyone ever using it.

I can't see it being that though if it is crashing when entering the BIOS as readyboost would only be loaded fairly late in the Windows boot process.

I would start by resetting the BIOS to default and checking that the voltages all look ok. I would then run some memory checking software (I think Windows 7 has some options for that). If you can manually set the voltage of your memory you may be able to nudge it by 0.05 or 0.1 v to see if it helps.