[SOLVED] Looks like a RAM error but isn't - HP Elitebook 850 G6

[DadSlashNerd]

Okay, my laptop (HP Elitebook 850 G6 -i5-8365, 32Gb RAM) occasionally crashes to a screen flashing bright colors, beeping unpredictably. Watch it here: Weird error

Sounds/Looks like a hardware error, right? Except I've replaced the laptop, the RAM, and the docking station/power supply.

Also, my Windows session is struggling to use more than 50% of the available RAM. I've got 32Gb, but if I try an use a Chrome session that takes me beyond about 50% of the RAM, then the session crashes with 'out of memory' errors. The same error doesn't seem to happen with Firefox.

I'm running up-to-date versions of W10 Pro, Chrome (64-bit) and Firefox.

Has anyone got any ideas what might be causing this?

 

[iPeekYou]

Okay, my laptop (HP Elitebook 850 G6 -i5-8365, 32Gb RAM) occasionally crashes to a screen flashing bright colors, beeping unpredictably. Watch it here: Weird error

Sounds/Looks like a hardware error, right? Except I've replaced the laptop, the RAM, and the docking station/power supply.

Also, my Windows session is struggling to use more than 50% of the available RAM. I've got 32Gb, but if I try an use a Chrome session that takes me beyond about 50% of the RAM, then the session crashes with 'out of memory' errors. The same error doesn't seem to happen with Firefox.

I'm running up-to-date versions of W10 Pro, Chrome (64-bit) and Firefox.

Has anyone got any ideas what might be causing this?

Not much of a software guy....but it sounds to me like a funky Windows behavior. I'm assuming you can see all 32GB RAM in Task Manager, right? I'd try a clean install of Windows and add updates one by one to see which one is the culprit, then rolling back to last known good config.

Also, not sure what you meant by replacing the laptop. Did you mean you had the same issue with a previous laptop and now you moved your drive to the Elitebook and still face the same problems?