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I built a machine a couple years ago that has been running well until two days ago (of course, as soon as I got my hands on some work). The machine has 3x2gb ram in a Gigabyte triple channel board and a Radeon 5700 series graphics card. As of two days ago, I can boot up and use the machine, but after a while a single app will lock up and gradually all the running apps on the machine will follow suit until it crashes.
Through trying to debug this, I have noticed that I am only every getting up to 30% physical memory, but any active apps I have are page faulting really fast (Chrome is making C~3000~10000/sec, Skype will make ~2000~5000/sec, Catalyst Control Center is make ~2000~4000/sec).
I cleaned out the case and slots with compressed air, ran memory checks, re-installed the graphics driver(I wondered if it had to do with apps that had visual components), and Googled everything I can think of. What am I missing?
Alex N.
Posted 2012-08-05T19:11:16.813
Reputation: 143
Is this running Win7 32 bit or 64 bit? Use this at the command line: wmic os get osarchitecture – Everett – 2012-08-05T21:51:21.723
Have you tried removing 1 stick of RAM, booting up, and seeing what the results are (rotating through which one is removed). I realize this is triple channel, and you'll loose some speed, we're just testing for faulty sticks of memory (I don't ALWAYS trust mem checkers). This just proves they are right... – Everett – 2012-08-05T21:55:16.710
This is 64 bit and I already tried booting up with each stick of RAM individually. I was actually curious if it could be the memory on the graphics card, but I have no idea if that would show page faults or how you would even test that memory. – Alex N. – 2012-08-07T07:04:23.737