- Jan 6, 2020
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Need some advice on what may have happened. About two months ago I did a bunch of upgrades. New Asus Z390-E ROG Strix motherboard, i5 9600K CPU, and EVGA RTX 2070 Super Black Edition. I already had some 16GB of 3200MHz DDR4 RAM from previously which I used. Things went together flawlessly and worked flawlessly up until the other night. Was about 2 hours into a sim racing session in VR when my system crashed hard. Screen froze, sound sounded like an alarm clock buzzer, everything seized up so had to hit the reset button. When system came back up, it notified me with a BSOD associated with memory management. I let it do it’s scan then restart, and things loaded up fine. However when I tried to restart Steam and VR, it immediately threw up another BSOD for memory. No sign that it overheated as both my GPU and CPU temps average in the mid-60’s celsius during heavy gaming.
So I began trouble shooting things with Scan Disk, Windows Memory Diagnostic tool, and System File Checker. System File Checker said it found a discrepancy but repaired it, everything else came up as working fine. Also checked my video card drivers and installed the latest version, then ran some Uningine video card benchmarking tests and everything was working fine. Then even ran full virus/malware scan which came up clean. I started up VR again and tried going to the game (Assetto Corsa Competizone) that it had crashed on. Steam suddenly wasn’t recognizing the game as installed any longer which was weird, so pointed Steam to reinstall in the same folder it was in and it quickly verified the file and started it up. All my save game settings and other settings in the game were gone. After fixing some settings I was getting ready to start a session, I got about 2 minutes into a game when it BSOD once again, this time with the message “attempted execute of noexecute_memory”.
Did some researching online and think I have it narrowed down to an issue with Windows possibly got jacked up when it hard crashed and I had to reset. That or my RAM is giving up the ghost even though it seems to be passing the RAM diagnostic scan. Not sure if the video card, and seems my hard drive (SSD) is passing all the tests and scans. I do intent to run MemTest86 later tonight when I get back home to test the RAM again with that. Any other guesses from the masses out there what it could be? Sure seems obvious something happened during that crash that is now causing the issue.
So I began trouble shooting things with Scan Disk, Windows Memory Diagnostic tool, and System File Checker. System File Checker said it found a discrepancy but repaired it, everything else came up as working fine. Also checked my video card drivers and installed the latest version, then ran some Uningine video card benchmarking tests and everything was working fine. Then even ran full virus/malware scan which came up clean. I started up VR again and tried going to the game (Assetto Corsa Competizone) that it had crashed on. Steam suddenly wasn’t recognizing the game as installed any longer which was weird, so pointed Steam to reinstall in the same folder it was in and it quickly verified the file and started it up. All my save game settings and other settings in the game were gone. After fixing some settings I was getting ready to start a session, I got about 2 minutes into a game when it BSOD once again, this time with the message “attempted execute of noexecute_memory”.
Did some researching online and think I have it narrowed down to an issue with Windows possibly got jacked up when it hard crashed and I had to reset. That or my RAM is giving up the ghost even though it seems to be passing the RAM diagnostic scan. Not sure if the video card, and seems my hard drive (SSD) is passing all the tests and scans. I do intent to run MemTest86 later tonight when I get back home to test the RAM again with that. Any other guesses from the masses out there what it could be? Sure seems obvious something happened during that crash that is now causing the issue.
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