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Hi,
I have a very similar problem - random bluescreens with the title MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. No single application seems to be associated with the errors - they occur unexpectedly, sometimes even when I'm not doing anything on the PC. I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, an Asus motherboard and 8GB RAM (Kingston, 1333MHz DDR3).
I have already tried to battle the issue for some time - Memtest86+ returns no errors, I've unplugged every device one at a time except for my HDD, and replaced the video card since the errors started (I'm running a couple years old PC which is recently upgraded to an i5 CPU and Win7). I thought I'd solved the problem with the suggestion above - I removed the last one of my RAM sticks (the memory addresses that the stop error pointed to started with FFFF so I assumed the fault was in the last memory stick) and surely the system seemed to run perfectly! Then I tried inserting the faulty stick back in alone, and my PC wouldn't even boot to Windows. I took the stick to the store and got a replacement, and everything worked just fine for a while.
Then the bluescreens returned.
At this point I'm suspecting hardware issues other than the RAM. The motherboard maybe? A lot of users with similar problems seem to have Asus motherboards. The only parts that are still from my old rig are the PSU (a 600W Zalman), the DVD drive, one SATA hard drive (not the OS drive) and the case. The PSU could well be the source of the problem, or the HDD maybe? Is there any way to test them for problems? I already tried monitoring the CPU voltage with SpeedFan, but it didn't show any unusual voltage spikes.
I've changed the DRAM frequency in the BIOS settings from "Auto" to 1333MHz which is the default frequency for my sticks. So far so good, no bluescreen for half an hour...
I have a very similar problem - random bluescreens with the title MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. No single application seems to be associated with the errors - they occur unexpectedly, sometimes even when I'm not doing anything on the PC. I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, an Asus motherboard and 8GB RAM (Kingston, 1333MHz DDR3).
I have already tried to battle the issue for some time - Memtest86+ returns no errors, I've unplugged every device one at a time except for my HDD, and replaced the video card since the errors started (I'm running a couple years old PC which is recently upgraded to an i5 CPU and Win7). I thought I'd solved the problem with the suggestion above - I removed the last one of my RAM sticks (the memory addresses that the stop error pointed to started with FFFF so I assumed the fault was in the last memory stick) and surely the system seemed to run perfectly! Then I tried inserting the faulty stick back in alone, and my PC wouldn't even boot to Windows. I took the stick to the store and got a replacement, and everything worked just fine for a while.
Then the bluescreens returned.
At this point I'm suspecting hardware issues other than the RAM. The motherboard maybe? A lot of users with similar problems seem to have Asus motherboards. The only parts that are still from my old rig are the PSU (a 600W Zalman), the DVD drive, one SATA hard drive (not the OS drive) and the case. The PSU could well be the source of the problem, or the HDD maybe? Is there any way to test them for problems? I already tried monitoring the CPU voltage with SpeedFan, but it didn't show any unusual voltage spikes.
I've changed the DRAM frequency in the BIOS settings from "Auto" to 1333MHz which is the default frequency for my sticks. So far so good, no bluescreen for half an hour...