Question My Pc has been bothered by this for around a year, I am not sure which is the problem.

[Et_mut]

First off, when I built my computer a couple of years ago it was fine, after a few months I got a srttrail.exe failure to boot windows code that took me about a day to fix, although I don’t remember how I did it then. A few months after that it happened again, same code. This time I wasn’t able to fix it no matter what, anything I did didn’t lead to anything, so I reinstalled windows and reset my computer and it was fine for a while. A few months after that I upgraded my pc without issue for the most part, I replaced the cpu, motherboard, wifi card, AND storage, with my new SSD, I started completely from scratch with windows, no old files, nothing. And now, I have encountered the Srttrail fail again. Im kind of done this time, at first with this issue this week it was just completely freezing my pc when I tried to open a game, the screen would go black, my fans went to max, and my gpu lights would turn off and my ram lights would stay on. I stopped trying to open games after the 2nd fail and checked event viewer to see what the problem was, I had been getting warnings from “windows resource manager” or RasMan before the critical failures, but looking through I had been getting those since I upgraded but no pc crashes until now with those warnings or failures, so I don’t think it was that. Also, I saw someone say that those errors may be due to a VPN setting in windows, so I tried going to them but the windows settings app would crash whenever I clicked the VPN section. I don’t think I’ve ever clicked that tab but I left it alone because instead, what I believe was causing it, was nvlddmkm failure that happened right before critical when I tried opening games. I’ve seen on a windows forum that it is an nvidia driver failing, and on another, that someone fixed it by getting new ram because theirs was faulty. I tried updating my drivers and opening a game, but it did the same thing and crashed my pc. So I tried taking out my ram sticks and putting them in individually in the slots 1 by 1 to see which would let me fix my problems to see if one if faulty. Instead what happened was that my pc just started failing to go into windows, with 1 of the sticks it would fail, and with the other, it just wouldn’t turn on at all. So I put both back in and started seeing srttrail.exe and I gave up and came here because im sick of this and want to know if I should just by new ram, which I’m mostly sure of being the problem here.

 

[CodeConnoisseur]

Install MemTest on a flash drive and test each DIMM one at a time. If one is not being detected at all and failing POST (which I'm assuming is what you mean by "it just wouldn't turn on at all") but the other is detected in the same slot then I'd be pretty confident saying that stick is dead.