My PC is randomly blue screening and certain programs fail to run/ crash often. What do I do?

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My PC will randomly blue screen, even more when I start my PC. I've ran a numerous amount of Mem checks and Disk checks, but didn't get anything from them. Certain programs won't launch, many crash, and some games launch with a black screen even though sound plays. What do I do?
 
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Click on my name. Try disabling the page file. Then turn it back on. Since this obviously has something to do with memory and can get corrupt. Disabling this and turning it back on should delete it then recreate it




Thing is, its a random chance, theres a chance it might crash, and a chance it won't. Also, please download my most recent dmp.

It says access denied when I attempt to disable ESET.
 


Are you sure its a startup program? My PC doesn't always crash upon starting. For example, i had it running for about an hour and it crashed after an hour. Also, programs are acting oddly, such as google chrome always having unresponsive pages.
 
The ntoskrnl.exe stop error is a memory management stop error so it may still be the ram. This can also mean a faulty memory controller on your mobo

Google Chrome isnt the greatest browser around. If I were you I would uninstall it

Test each stick separately with memtest, I bet one of them will bring up errors. Overnight a few hrs may not be enough
 


I found out that the ntoskrnl .exe BSOD might be a boot.ini issue. I'm going to boot into safe mode and run chkdsk /f into CMD and see if that fixes anything.
 


I wasn't able to untick ESET. But logitech is disabled. I did the Disk Check Fix. I'm not sure if it worked but I hope to believe it did. Google Chrome hasn't crashed a page yet and that to me is a good sign.
 


As of now. I really hope that the disk check fixed it. It seems to have, though. If it hasn't, am I able to send you a message if the problem occurs again?
 
So after attempting numerous amount of solutions, it seems that going into safe mode, opening up cmd and typing chkdsk /f, restarting the computer, and waiting for the disk check to complete has solved my problem. For anyone else having a similar problem, try this first.
 


Click on my name. Try disabling the page file. Then turn it back on. Since this obviously has something to do with memory and can get corrupt. Disabling this and turning it back on should delete it then recreate it


 
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What do I search for in WIN+R?
 


Okay, it turned on and its working fine. So everythings perfect now?
 
Hopefully run it for a few days / weeks. See how it goes. But if its going fine now and that logitech file is still disabled in startup. I would uninstall it. It may have been causing some problem when it was enabled and running

Usually if something is crashing when you try to boot into windows, and if it boots fine in safe mode. It can be something in startup thats causing the crash.

And since safe mode doesnt load a lot of things like services, this is an easy way of finding out what the culprit maybe. And unticking / disabling things in safe mode is another way of finding out what it maybe. Next time you try and boot into windows.
 


I know for a fact the logitech program doesn't cause problems. I have it on a numerous amount of computers. But thanks for all of your help!
 
Anything can crash, even if it's installed on a lot of PC's. And logitech programs / drivers have been known to crash systems before. But you can enable it again if you want.

Turning the page file, off then on may have fixed it. Because it too can cause memory probs. And this 0x50 stop error. If the page file is corrupt

 

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