Several BSOD regarding RAM (i think)

[chino20]

Dear Toms!

I don't have much experience regarding computers except for gaming, so I am quite the noob. I was hoping you could help me solve this problem I have.
My components are:

Intel Core i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40 GHZ 3.70 GHz
16 GB RAM, 4 sticks.
64-bit operating system
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 Ti.

I have had my computer less than a year and I have never opened the case or changed any hardware inside. I started with windows 7, but changed to windows 8 when I had a couple of blue screens. I have formatted my harddrives a couple of times now so I really don't think theres anything wrong with windows registry or other software programs.

Since a while back I have been getting different blue screens, both in windows 7 and windows 8. The BSoDs have been "system_service_exception", "Bad_pool_header", "IRQL_not_less_or_equal", "Memory_management", Kernel_stack_inpage_error". I have browsed through these and every one of them says that it probably is a RAM issue.

I did a memory diagnostic test (the option in windows 8) and it couldn't find any errors. I also removed one stick at a time to see which one of them had problems, and it seems like I have problems with 3 sticks as well. Not only am I getting blue screens, but I have a hard time updating windows updater (windows 7). It downloads and doesn't seem to get past a certain point in the download/install. Furthermore, there is an issue regarding winrar as well, which I also have googled up, where I get a checksum error on bigger files.

I know this is a vague explaination of the issues I may have with my comp but this is the best way I could put it from my expertise.

Thank you

 

[C12Friedman]

Just to eliminate it as a suspect here (currently my main suspect), what is the make and model of your PSU?
Have you had any issues running two sticks of ram in dual channel, have you tried that?

 

[chino20]

I don't know the model of it, it's all covered and all I can see is a note saying "230VAC".
I haven't tried pairing the sticks yet, I will do that if I get a BSOD again. This is the last stick I am trying without and so far the windows updates have installed correctly without any issues and no new BSoD yet. I will wait and see if the problems are solved or if I still have the same problems as before. Thanks for your input. I will write back and explain how it turns out.

 

[chino20]

Do you think I should pull it out and search for the model name of it?

 

[C12Friedman]

There should be a label on the PSU (hopefully) visible when the side panel is removed, if not we can get back to that later though, see how you're running with different ram configurations

 

[chino20]

I have removed the last RAM and am currently running with three sticks. So far everything is working well. I managed to update all windows update files and extract the rar files that I couldn't extract before, with that stick in. So hopefully the issue was the last RAM stick. Going to wait and see though. Hopefully I won't be seing any BSoD anymore.