Ram stick suddenly not working?

[UkieGunZ]

So, about 2 days ago, I installed this bluetooth adapter onto my computer. Everything seemed fine until the next day where I encountered a bsod regarding memory management late at night. Now, the bluetooth and adapter had been up and running and was in use for the entire day so the errors seemed to be completely random. I don't remember doing anything out of the blue. However, there was this one incident that kept happening that possibly relates to the bsods. Google Chrome started crashing constantly at random times with the page "Aww snap something broke" popping up every now and then, sometimes more rapidly.

So at that point, I tried resetting my computer, wondering if it would go away. Nope. My computer would just keep having a blue screen of death regarding memory management after a few minutes of logging into Windows. So i reinstalled Windows as I had just reinstalled it recently anyway. It worked for a while until it happened again. I did some research and decided to reseat my ram sticks, but that didn't work. So, I tried pulling out two of them, leaving me with 8gb left and 2 of the 4 slots filled up. It now works perfectly without any chrome crashes or bsods. I haven't tried testing or isolating the ram stick or slot that is malfunctioning, and I can't run memtests on the supposedly broken sticks because Windows bsods 2 minutes after I boot it up with them. Right now, I've only narrowed it down to two sticks, although it might only be one of them.

My PC specs:
PSU: Corsair TX750W
MOBO: Asrock z77 extreme 4
CPU: intel i5-3570k 3.4ghz
GPU: gtx 970 ftw edition
RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3

other devices that I have connected to my computer included a bluetooth dualshock 4 controller, kb/m, and a Rosewill 802.11N, N900 PCI Express Wireless Adapter.

Here is the minidump file. If anybody wants me to upload any other files, I'd be happy to.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/czh8uebq30fanax/DMP+File.zip

 

[geofelt]

The gold standard for testing ram is memtest86+
Download it to a fat32 usb device.
It does not need a OS, you just boot from the usb.
You should be able to complete a couple of full passes with NO errors.

If there is an error, try to isolate a good stick and use that to test all your ram slots in case you have a bad slot.

If you find a bad stick rma the kit.
Ram generally has a lifetime warranty.

Note that 4 stick kits are harder for the motherboard to manage. If you have a problem, give the ram some extra voltage in the bios to compensate.

 

[UkieGunZ]

The gold standard for testing ram is memtest86+
Download it to a fat32 usb device.
It does not need a OS, you just boot from the usb.
You should be able to complete a couple of full passes with NO errors.

If there is an error, try to isolate a good stick and use that to test all your ram slots in case you have a bad slot.

If you find a bad stick rma the kit.
Ram generally has a lifetime warranty.

Note that 4 stick kits are harder for the motherboard to manage. If you have a problem, give the ram some extra voltage in the bios to compensate.

yeah ive pretty much narrowed it down to one stick, but i didnt use memtest86+. So I had 2/4 ram sticks in and it was working, I put one more in to make it 3/4 and it worked fine. I put that same stick into the other slot and it had worked fine as well. As soon as I tried the fourth stick (took that third one out) in either of the remaining slots, it still bsod'd soon after starting Windows along with Google Chrome breaking within seconds of using it. Luckily, my 3 year warranty runs out in a week, so I'll try and see if I can RMA it.

I should probably plug that bad stick in by itself and run memtest though just to be sure...