How to Fix the Memory Related BSOD Errors
Bluescreen of death or BSOD is a common problem. Recently moving to Windows 11 causing me a lot of trouble. My PC shuts off automatically when trying to play games or running many applications same time. My PC is a bit old and it worked perfectly all these time, but recently it just got very unstable. Even I upgraded the GPU with RTX 3050, CPU Ryzen 5 5600x processor and PSU Cooler Master 550 Watt. But still my PC is failing to run properly.
After gathering many information from the posts and threads that are available on Microsoft forums and other places, I realized that one of my memory is causing the problem. Possibly Graphics Card, or RAM or the two SSDs I have.
Though GPU is brand new, and also my SSDs are in good health and also in good condition, I think in my case the culprit is RAM. When BSOD happens, windows creates minidump files with which you can check or ask to Microsoft support by sharing those files exactly what caused your PC crash. I am going to share the information about those dump files here -
Crash dump file 1 -
Bugcheck code: 0x50(0xFFFFF801850D56D0, 0x10, 0xFFFFF801850D56D0, 0x2)
Bugcheck name: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Bug check description: This indicates that invalid system memory has been referenced. This can be caused by a faulty driver. Antivirus software can also trigger this error, as can a corrupted NTFS volume. It can also be caused by faulty hardware, (in particular faulty or overheated RAM or video RAM) or an overheated system component.
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- From my personal experience, if BSOD happens and you see any of these errors, first you have to do is - remove your GPU, RAM and all other stuff and clean them properly and safely. Then put it back properly together. Most of the time when BSOD happens, its generally because of hardware failure.
- If you have two RAM sticks, and you keep getting this error. My suggestion to you is check the single sticks one at a time, and see if each memory working properly. By doing this, you can find out if a single RAM stick is creating this error or not. Also try to use the sticks with default speed, do not activate extreme memory profile. Sometimes depending on your motherboard and CPU, using the RAM with its full memory clock speed may can crash your system.
- Make sure you installed the RAM sticks (if you have two) in the proper slots. Learn about your motherboard RAM slots, you can find it from the motherboard's manufacturer website. As for me, I have Gigabyte AB 350 gaming motherboard and the slots are distributed like this - DDR4 1(red), DDR4 3(black), DDR4 2(red), DDR4 4(black). So, to enable the dual channel memory properly, you have to install the RAM sticks at number 1 and number 2 slots or number 3 or number 4 slot. Which means either the red color slots or the black color slots. You use one red color and one black color slot, it may not going to show you any problem normally, but when you try to speed up the RAM or in long run, you may face BSOD errors.
- For AMD GPU's, AMD drivers always messes the things a lot. So when you see your AMD driver is ready to install another update, just don't update. Wait with the one that's causing no problem. You can install the current AMD driver after like 1 month later. In case you installed the driver already and you see the pc crashing or giving BSOD, uninstall the driver first. Open the GPU and clean it a bit then put it back. Then find the old driver which worked for you earlier and install and you are not going to have any problem.
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