Vista BSOD, ram sticks disappearing, it's like magic!

Fewmitz · Feb 2, 2009

Foreward: If I don't give enough detail, give it time, I'm playing beat the clock here.

Starting about a week ago (it happened before, too, although it picked up frequency a week ago) I started getting a bunch of weird erros (not so much weird as I hadn't seen them before):

~Host Process for Windows Services has stopped working
~Superfetch has stopped working
~Completely random BSODs

The first two were annoying, but never seemed major, but whenever it would crash I would lose a stick of RAM, from 6 gigs to 2 to 4 (although everything would be fine after a manual shutdown, until it crashed again).

I've run every sort of virus scan known to man, so right now I' just praying that it isn't hardware failure. Ideas?

Specs:

Vista Home 64
Sapphire 4870X2
6 gigs 3x2 G Skill DDR3 RAM
Core i7 920

joeten · Feb 3, 2009

hi you could try this http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.htmland more info here http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx and here re memory http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Dracia · Feb 3, 2009

It might be faulty RAM, due to the BSODs and the sticks disappearing. Zip up the files in your minidump folder and attach them to your next post.

C:\WINDOWS\Minidump

nonamedsomebody · Feb 3, 2009

if you haven't already done so i would run memtest I would do this with 2gigs installed at a time it would be easier to pinpoint problems if any come up.

Vista BSOD, ram sticks disappearing, it's like magic!

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