I am having a very annoying issue where I get a blue screen every so often in Windows Vista. Sometimes its after I close out a program, but it seems to happen at any time at least once every 2 days of heavy computer use. The blue screen will post MEMORY_MANAGEMENT and the computer will then completely restart. The last time this happened was about 20 minutes ago when I applied a new screen saver. As soon as I hit the APPLY button I got the blue screen.

Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this or what I can do to solve?

i was getting a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL message on blue screens about once every hour or 2.... then i updated my bios... and as soon as windows started up i got a blue screen with the error MEMORY_MANAGEMENT..... really starting to irritate me lol...

Hello,

I am from Romania and i'm not as good at spelling english as speaking...
The Memory_Management blue screen error that you have is a RAM problem.
I had this proplem and it ocoured often but I fixed it with a simple solutin: well ia have 3 banks of RAM on my notherboard and 2 Ram modules (2x512mb) so placed one module in the firs bank and the seond module of Ram in the third bank, leaving the middle bank empty. I never saw the blue screen again.

If you have the same situation , do what I did.
If you have only one module and at least two banks, try switching it's place.
If you have the same no. of modules and banks, try switching betwen then.

If none of this works try exchangeing Ram with a friend. If the problem continues your motherboard is not compatibile with the RAM or it has a defect.

Hope it works ...

Asta Merge Numai In Romania

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hello, I am from Romania and i'm not as good at spelling english as speaking... The Memory_Management blue screen error that you have is a RAM problem. I had this proplem and it ocoured often but I fixed it with a simple solutin: well ia have 3 banks of RAM on my notherboard and 2 Ram modules (2x512mb) so placed one module in the firs bank and the seond module of Ram in the third bank, leaving the middle bank empty. I never saw the blue screen again. If you have the same situation , do what I did. If you have only one module and at least two banks, try switching it's place. If you have the same no. of modules and banks, try switching betwen then. If none of this works try exchangeing Ram with a friend. If the problem continues your motherboard is not compatibile with the RAM or it has a defect. Hope it works ...

could you please tell me how to place module's in other bank's so i could try your theory as it's the only one i can foolow. thankyou.

Hi johnoh,

there's a couple of ways you could test your memory. You do the above (I'll explain how shortly) or you could try using memtest, this is a free utility which does what it says.. A guide to using memtest and download is here:
Tutorial: How to use Memtest - TechSpot OpenBoards

The method posted by Asta assumes you have two sticks of RAM one of which may be faulty. To determine which, involves just using one stick at a time and trying to replicate the fault. If the error happens with one stick and not the other then you know which stick is the bad one.

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Hi,


I've got the same problem now, it started on my pc after i installed my new graphics card. I got the following messages: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA, MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. This blue-screen moves fast, but i can read something like, Disable cache or shadowing in BIOS????? Anyone knows what this means i can't find it in the BIOS anywhere.

I think it has more to do with my Graphics Card driver, because it says that the driver doesn't work well, and my all my Graphics are rubbish after a blue screen error.


Sorry for incorrect spelling i'm Dutch and new to this forum.

Bye

Hi Dangster, try a different graphics driver and see if that makes a difference.

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Hi Kemical,

I just tryed, i tryed WQL and Beta versions, no change in blue-screens, alot of change in FPS in Call of Duty 4 :P. Still got errors, just started changing ram-modules. No crashes till now. I can't believe it could be my memory modules, there not even 4 months old and never oc'ed. Never had problems in the beginning.

Corsair QUAD2X4096-8500C5DF Dominator 4096 MB, PC8500, 1066 MHz, 5, Kit Of 4

Do you know anything i can try???

Thanks so far...

Hi Dangster

What graphics card are you using??, I do not think it could be a memory problem