Constant freezing and BSODs
Hey! So I've been having a bit of a problem with my PC these past weeks. It's a prebuilt Acer Nitro N50 from like 2 years ago.
So I started getting issues like the PC would just freeze when playing a game and not respond to anything and I'd manually have to shut it down. Sometimes it would reboot itself suddenly and sometimes I get a BSOD.
Some of these errors I have received are:
Ntfs.sys
Memory_management
Page fault in nonpaged area
Usually these happen when I freshly boot my PC in the morning and start playing games. If they don't happen within an hour of a boot, I haven't encountered the problem during the day.
I've tried command prompt for sfc /scannow and mdsched.exe and both came clean. Also checked the drives in 'My computer' and it didn't give me anything either.
What could be the issue here? I've considered reinstalling windows but I'm not sure that would get rid of the issue either.
edit: Acer Nitro N50-600, Intel(R) Core i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 16gb RAM, GeForce GTX 1070
Posted Aug 30, 2020, 12:42 PM UTC · edited
Download bluescreenviewer. Read latest crash dump log. Google what the crash cause was and you'll likely find its a driver. Could also be a RAM issue with the page fault.
I'll give it a shot later on today!
I've been looking into the RAM issue aswell. How would one go about fixing that?
Depends if it's actually a RAM issue. I would start by doing a memory check, windows has a built in program for this. If it's been awhile since you've reinstalled the OS, I would just go that route if it's nothing physically wrong with machine.
Thanks for the input, I'll give it a go later!
Ok so, I downloaded bluescreen viewer and got this.
culprit seems to be ntoskrnl.exe and ntfs.sys, how should I proceed from here?
Also the bug check codes: https://imgur.com/a/tKVW7Hh
I checked one of them and its hinting at a "severe memory problem"
Do a full memory scan, windows has a built in program for this. Try removing one stick of ram and see if your computer functions fine. Then swap to the other stick and see if it functions fine on just that stick.
I did that diagnostics a few days ago and it came clean, although now I tried doing it again twice and it froze the both times.
I had no issues yesterday when I left my computer on standby for most of the day, even played games without problems. But the moment I reboot my computer it starts acting up.
Did you try physically testing the RAM sticks yet?