Blue screening- Memory Issue

[robscaz]

Hello,
I have recently built my own system at Christmas and everything has been fine until now. But suddenly I am getting the dreadful Blue screen! I have restored my computer to see if that solved the issue but it has not. It has made the crashes less frequent however, but programs keep crashing now. I.e firefox does not work at all it just crashes.

i have used the mdsched, and that said I have a memory issue. So how do I find out if its Ram or my HDD?

My system is:
MSI MS-7758
INTEL I5-3570K
WD 1TB HDD BLUE
CORSAIR VENGENCE 8GB RAM
NVIDIA GTX760

Any help would be brilliant!
Thanks Rob Scarisbrick

 

[moulderhere]

Use Memtest from either hirens or http://www.memtest.org/

Let it run, and that will tell you if its ram. It will display results in red for errors.

 

[robscaz]

Use Memtest from either hirens or http://www.memtest.org/

Let it run, and that will tell you if its ram. It will display results in red for errors.

Running it now, 50% through the pass 206080 errors already 🙁

 

[robscaz]

Ran the test again with only 1 of my ram sticks in. No errors. Took that one out put the other in, loads of errors so there we go faulty ram. Will attempt to get a replacement.

 

[moulderhere]

When you get a replacement run the memtest again with all ram sticks installed. This ensures your ram is fully compatible. You can by ram that is good stand alone but in a pair they hate each other.