SOLVED Very odd problem

[OblivionArc]

Hello, so I have been running win 7 for a few years, very stable no problems. The other night I was playing some pokemon via vba, and my computer crashed. Was like hmmmm, until it randomly kept happening every 10-30 mins, even with no applications running, the cpu would go from like 5, 15, 30, 25, 5, 30 and it would crash. At this point I'm thinking virus or shitastic software issue. Run avast, registry cleaner, file check when Windows first boots, nothing. The crashes happen about as often in safe mode. So I formatted my hd and installed win 10, crashed after an hour, now it is as it was or will crash before it boots. I get a combination of 'critical process died' and 'memory management error' I have 16 gb ram, gtx 570 gpu, and an I5. Any input is appreciated.

 

[Trouble]

Check the motherboard manufacturer's website and see if there is a BIOS update available.
Make sure you're not overclocking anything.
Use memtest86 to check your memory and memory slots on the MoBo http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm
Use ChkDsk and or the Hard Disk Manufacturer's utility to test the hard drive.
Stress test the CPU with http://www.mersenne.org/download/
And the GPU with http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

 

[OblivionArc]

Thank you. Running memtest atm and getting 65535+ errors for each test lol. Will update with the result of the stress tests later on.

 

[OblivionArc]

Thanks again, memtest let me deduce that one of my ram sticks had died. (Ran memtest with only one of the ram sticks at a time to figure out which) and its fixed.

 

[Trouble]

Hopefully, as most ram now has at least a limited lifetime warranty, replacing it should not be too costly.
Thanks for following up and lettings us know what your found.