PC has weird crashes

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andris.loiv

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I built my PC in mid-July, had to send the mobo back for bios update (2000 ryzen wasn't compatible) It was completely fine until the end of August, I think. With some win update, I started getting bsod's. Quite rarely, they still happen randomly. Sometimes not for many-many days. They usually go by MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL etc. Memory related bsods, I ran the windows memtest and memtest86 for quite a long time (about 10 hours) and no issues what so ever. And I very rarely have these.. black screens and PC restarts itself randomly. I have used BSV also, it gives me mostly ntoskrnl.exe issues (0x0000003b, 0x0000001e, 0x00000050)

My PC specs:

Ryzen 5 2600x @3.6GHz (stock) although the voltage seems very low - around 1 volt
Using the stock cpu cooler (temps around 52c under load)
Gainward Geforce GTX 1060 6GB
2x8GB G.Skill (the FlareX, that's compatible with Ryzen) RAM @2400MHz (stock) voltage is around 1.2v
Thermaltake TR2 S 600W PSU
Gigabyte GA-AB350M HD3 motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB HDD (ST1000DM010-2EP102)
Windows 10 Home (edit: forgot to add it)

And the thing is, I can play games just fine - it has never crashed when gaming. Only when booting or just randomly idle/browsing. It can't be the memory, I've tested it too many times to count. Sorry for the long post, never done this before.

EDIT: The problem lied in DRAM voltage, was a bit too low for the component to be stable. Hope it helps someone to troubleshoot their PC. :)
 
memory dmp is corrupted

maybe provide a memory dump of the system before it bugchecks. I can read the internal error logs and see if there are some problems detected before it bugchecks.
google "how to force a memory dump using a keyboard"
set the registry setting and force a memory dump.
best if you run verifier.exe /standard /all
it will make debugging easy.
note: use verifier.exe /reset to turn off verifer when done testing.

might want to scan for rootkits



 

andris.loiv

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I ran driver verifier for quite a long while, nothing happened, tried settings in BIOS, also seemed funky. But, when I upped my dram voltage by 5 millivolts, the bsods disappeared, it has been like this for a week now. No bsods when booting or idle. Thank you for your time and answers!