So my question(s) - can RAM just 'suddenly' go bad like this without warning? I didn't notice any signs or symptoms of this happening, one minute the PC worked fine and the next, I got the dreaded blue screen. Of course, since I needed to prove to myself that the stick of RAM really was the problem, I put it back in, and after starting, I encountered the same problem again.
I tried a bunch of different things, and then finally pulled one of the 8 gig strips out ( it was purchased separately and installed a few months after I got the PC (new).Īpparently, this was the issue, because my PC then fired right up, no problems, everything stable. I had 16 gig of RAM installed in my PC - two separate sticks of 8 - and everything has worked fine for over a year but yesterday I got the W10 version of 'the blue screen of death', and the cause cited was 'memory management'. LOL, I mean, I know basic things, but not so much internal hardware stuff). a couple questions for our more computer-savvy members.( this isn't me.
