Is there something wrong with my RAM?

Question

Windows

When the PC is loaded, some applications either freeze (the window becomes gray and does not respond) or even "crash" / errors in operation. Why do I suspect RAM? So it's just that all applications that crash refer to "Cell 0xcxxxxxxxx failures" or something like that. Even Opera said a couple of times that "The page was stopped due to a memory error. If this happens again, then you need to ...". Just did a memory test from Windows at the standard level.



Also, the screen can turn black or even gray at any time (but it seems to me that it was gray because of Discord). The fact that this is a GDDR video card is also suspect, but everything seems to be fine with the video card, it does not get warm enough.

It is very strange that this happened because of virtual memory (SWAP). I lowered it to 2024 (now 4086) from 16198MB. I did this due to lack of memory in the system (C: - 3 Gb Free)

UPD: Just dug into the logs and noticed this


UPD1: Just noticed that the RAM is almost on the same "wave"

Answer 1

The solution algorithm is as follows:
- put an SSD only for the system
- HDD for files, programs and other things
It's not about RAM, but about disk memory))

Answer 2

1. A 2GB swap is not enough, of course, but it will be more likely out of memory
2. With memory tests, the thing is this: in most cases (more than 90%), a standard test will detect a problem with RAM, but in your particular case this may not be enough. To be sure - put an extended test at night. Perhaps the error will appear only on the 5-6th run.
3. It doesn't hurt to check the C drive: - there may be problems with reading data from the swap.

Answer 3

I had a similar problem, the problem was the motherboard, it did not support a certain frequency (I don’t remember already) of RAM, when I lowered it everything worked without crashes. Swap in my case had nothing to do with it.

Answer 4

When Windows says that an error occurred when trying to access an address such and such, it does not mean physical. address in memory, and address in process memory. I dare to assume that all these applications use some kind of .dll that either does not exist in the system, or it is damaged. If the .dll is a system one, i.e. from the T-shirts themselves, you can check the integrity of the system files, you can see on the Internet how to do it, I don’t remember right off the bat. Most likely you need to dig in this direction. In general, I would usually not bother with such garbage and rolled up a new Windows. Most likely there are no problems with the RAM. Well, you can check it with memtest, just in case. Why did you decide that SWAP was to blame, I didn’t really understand, of course, but again, this does not disprove my assumption in any way