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Question BSOD/PC restarting when playing games

Jun 27, 2024
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There are a couple of things that the dumps point to, but I suggest the first thing to do is test your RAM. The two dumps do contain clues that bad RAM might be a potential cause here so we need to eliminate that first.
  1. Download Memtest86 (free), use the imageUSB.exe tool extracted from the download to make a bootable USB drive containing Memtest86 (1GB is plenty big enough). Do this on a different PC if you can, because you can't fully trust yours at the moment.
  2. Then boot that USB drive on your PC, Memtest86 will start running as soon as it boots.
  3. If no errors have been found after the four iterations of the 13 different tests that the free version does, then restart Memtest86 and do another four iterations. Even a single bit error is a failure.