Windows 10: Memory Corruption BSOD

System Build:

MOBO: ASUS ROG STRIX Z-370H GAMING

CPU: Intel i7 8700k

SDD: Samsung Evo 550

Display: GeForce GTX 760

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-2133


A foreword, this build is only about 1 year old, except for the 760.


I have had various blue screens over the last couple months, at least once per day, with the vast majority of them being MEMORY_CORRUPTION. I have .txt files from previous minidumps during July that I analyzed using the Windows debugging tools, and minidumps from recent 2 recent BSOD, that had the errors listed as ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY and DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. At first, I thought the blue screens were due to an aging hard drive, so I replaced it and found that it did nothing to alleviate the errors. I have run memtest86, and found no errors although that could be due to lack of extensive testing as I only ran 4 passes of all the tests. I recently updated the BIOS to the latest version for my motherboard, and also made zero impact. The blue screens have continued to happen even after multiple reinstalls of Windows. I can upload the recent minidumps and the .txt files of past analyzed dumps, if needed. I don't know the proper way to upload dump files or other files to this forum is so, I will wait until a response telling me the best way to go about that. I am suspecting that the RAM is the culprit, but any help would be much appreciated.

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BSODs with corrupt pagefile - Is That Possible?

Past couple of days I have been having random BSODS. A few examples of the messages was - Memory management / IRQL less than or equal to/ Thread could not be activated/ Page Pool something or other.

First BSODS I have had on this relatively new system so decided to take everything back to stock and test each part. I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit BTW.

HDtune error check - fine
Memtest86 - 10 passes fine
Prime 95 - 7hrs overnight fine
Graphics card - furmark/3DMark fine

Go to play a bit of WOW last night and it locks up straight away with memory management issue. So I looked into it a bit and read that it could possibly be a virtual memory/pagefile issue and that if it is corrupted it may cause these issues.

I then set the pagefile to zero and enabled clear pagefile on shutdown in the registry. When it rebooted I let the amount be set by Windows and disabled the registry entry for clearing it on shutdown and will see how it goes.

I had never heard of this issue before causing BSODS, is it common and what should be the next step if I get another one today with the new pagefile in place?

 

Programs not working


In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.

 

Memory Corruption


Here are the hdtune results of my other internal drive. Note that this is a 3TB drive, but hdtune only says it is 2199G. I'm going to reinstall nvidia, then I'll run the chkdsk on it.