BSOD or screen freeze if both RAMs inserted. Fine with either RAM in either slot.

[shuucyril]

I don't know what the problem is but I have had this problem for years but recently I have found out that this problem is avoided if I only use either RAM stick in either of my two slots.

I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 Laptop, bought around 2008.
BIOS: InsydeH2O Ver 1.80
Processor: IntelI(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz
Memory: 2x 2048 DDR2 RAM

I have included a couple of minidump files.

https://nofile.io/f/1sd8hQmSxBR/031218-54147-01.dmp
https://nofile.io/f/YxYZPbfohBr/032218-29406-01.dmp
https://nofile.io/f/XUTKZzukDA4/032418-29796-01.dmp

 

[Doseq]

Perform MemTest86
https://www.memtest86.com/

 

[shuucyril]

Perform MemTest86
https://www.memtest86.com/

A while back I did the test with two passes and it was fine

 

[Christopher1]

If it is only freezing with both sticks of memory in the machine it is unlikely that either stick of memory is defective. MemTest86 is very unlikely to be what you need to use though you can run it to make sure that neither stick of memory is defective.

Try putting the sticks in different slots. I.E. run it with a only 1 stick in the top slot and see if it BSOD's and then run it with a only 1 stick in the bottom slot and see if it BSOD's. If it does not in either case then the slots are not defective.
If it does in one case then you have narrowed your problem down to one of the slots being defective.

For a computer from 2008... I'm sorry but it is not really going to be worth getting it fixed unless you are willing to take the risk of doing the fix yourself. You would be paying for someone to order a new motherboard and for the labor half or more of the cost of a cheap new laptop that is equivalent to your Satellite from ASUS or Acer.

 

[Doseq]

Your first .dmp file points the failure of bad block in paging file or disk controller error. This should be automaticly fixed after a computer restart.
Try to perform "Chkdsk /f /r" on system drive.

Second one points a mode device drivers using improper addresses.
Going by microsoft instructions try Driver Verifier https://docs.microsoft.com/pl-pl/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/driver-verifier

Third dmp file refers to GoogleUpdate.e, i suggest uninstalling all the google apps you may have on your laptop.

Keep in mind that solutions mentioned above are more of a solving a problem caused by a problem. If you suspect your RAM/RAM slot to be faulty then its a hardware issue that can be solved by replacing the broken parts :/

 

[shuucyril]

Your first .dmp file points the failure of bad block in paging file or disk controller error. This should be automaticly fixed after a computer restart.
Try to perform "Chkdsk /f /r" on system drive.

Second one points a mode device drivers using improper addresses.
Going by microsoft instructions try Driver Verifier https://docs.microsoft.com/pl-pl/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/driver-verifier

Third dmp file refers to GoogleUpdate.e, i suggest uninstalling all the google apps you may have on your laptop.

Keep in mind that solutions mentioned above are more of a solving a problem caused by a problem. If you suspect your RAM/RAM slot to be faulty then its a hardware issue that can be solved by replacing the broken parts :/

Well, so far it hasn't BSOD yet (knock on wood). It could be because I used an eraser to rub the golden circuit connectors to rid of any oxidation if any.

UPDATE:

OKAY, here's what happened. Overnight I woke the laptop from sleep mode and it had remained black screen and nothing seems to wake it up, despite having power. I hard-restarted and it froze on the login screen, before I was able to input my password. I did that again and it froze AFTER i entered my password. I have resorted back to having one RAM stick. This is horrible as it's only 2 GB of RAM and everything lags... You guys think it is a motherboard issue? Seems unfixable?