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sethnintendo on 09 August 2011
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ishiki said:

I can't say. Run memtest. Google it. It will test your memory for errors
Random Restarts could be many things, or essentially everything, Power Supply, VideoCard, Bad Memory, Bad Drivers.
When windows restarts. Does it give you a message (I forgot the actually wording) saying that it restarted on its own.

Heat shouldn't be an issue in memory ever, even overclocked because even then it doesn't draw many watts. But if it is getting hot it could be a problem. 

This is something I found to try not sure if its correct
Go in the System Properties | Advanced | Startup and Recovery and change
> the option to have the computer Automatically restart on system failure,
> configure it to halt on the BSOD then post the contents of the BSOD to
> your next post.
>


I wrote a few down before I switched to the original memory

while I had my newer memory (ones I think went bad) I got

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT - read on some forum that it is probably bad memory since most of the posts were talking about bad memory

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL - read a little about this on microsoft site -  "The most common cause of this error is an incorrect or corrupted pointer that references an incorrect location in memory. A pointer is a variable used by a program to refer to a block of memory."

with the original memory put back in the only crash I was able to record said

BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO which is probably due to switching the memory in and out even though I said okay on the memory change right on boot up.

"This issue may occur if one or more of the random access memory (RAM) modules that are installed in your computer is damaged or if the RAM configuration is incompatible."

 

So basically it is looking like my newer memory went bad possibly due to prolonged heat exposure.  I'll keep trying to get all my scans complete just in case.  I'll also run memtest on all the memory sticks that I have to possibly pin point it to memory.   So far I have the computer running for almost an hour with no crashes on the original memory.  I should maybe ghetto rig a fan in the computer just to cool my memory since this computer seems to be designed poorly (e-machine).