NTOSKRNL.exe causing BSoD

Blubberykollis

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So I got that Blue screen Viewer. And it accused the file 'ntoskrnl.exe' for being corrupt. what do I do

The BSoD says something about "Memory_management" and "Dumping Physical memory"

Here are my specs. If that could help.

MoBo: MSI GD65 Gaming Z87
RAM: Dominator Platinum 4x4 Gb 1866 Mhz
GPU: eVGA GTX680 SLI
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
HDD: Seagate 2Tb 7200 Rpm
SSD: Samsung 840-series 128 Gb
 


If you have the exact error code/message that would go along away in attempts to resolve your issue.

Going from what is provided, you may want to start with testing your RAM using a bootable disk with memtest on it and allow it to run overnight.
 


I don't have a disk with a memtest on it. If there's some sort of download link. I would very much appreciate if you could send me a link with memtest
 


http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
 


Thank you. So what do I do next :>
 


Are you able to gain access to your desktop? If not then you will be required to gain access to an alternate computer in order to download the ISO and burn the ISO to disk.
 


So I just burn the ISO file into a disk?

In case. How big is the ISO file? So I know if I need to burn it on a Dvd disk.

And when I am done. I just boot the Computer with the disk. Like I do with OS disks?
 


The file itself is like 60K in size you could use a CD or usb stick.
Once you burn the ISO to the bootable media, you then boot like an OS disk. Please keep in mind that you do not burn the actual file to disk but you select the option to ISO to Disk in the burning software.
 


Okay. How long is the memtest supposed to go? it already found 32 fails. on one night. and it's still going
 




If you have errors recorded, you will now be required to figure out which stick or sticks of ram is/are bad. So you may have to pull out 3 of them, run the test for a few hours, then add in the second stick and so on.
 


I just return all 4 of them to the store. I bought them all at once