Hi everyone! I've had my PC for about a year and a half now and I'm running a setup with a 3060 NVIDIA RTX, AMD Ryzen 7, 32 GB of RAM, and a 650W power supply. It was put together at Best Buy, which I know sounds sketchy, and they had a lot of mistakes in the build. After dealing with boot issues, I took it to a local tech, and he fixed up everything, but now I'm stuck with a new problem: my PC blue screens at least once a day! This happens whether I'm streaming games on Discord or just gaming normally, even on titles that don't push the GPU hard. I've tried numerous fixes including running SFC and DISM commands, reinstalling drivers, and even doing a sort of Windows reinstall that keeps my files. My friends are out of ideas, and I'm getting pretty frustrated. The blue screen error I keep seeing is KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE, and I've had PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA pop up once as well. I really appreciate any help! Also, here's a link to my crash dump files if anyone can help decipher them: [link](https://www.mediafire.com/file/n4hrad2530cghhp/dump_%25282%2529.zip/file). Thanks!
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It sounds like you've already done some significant troubleshooting! Since you mentioned the SFC and DISM didn’t solve the issue, I'd suggest testing each RAM stick individually using MemTest86 overnight. Make sure to disable XMP in BIOS for the time being and perform a clean GPU driver installation using DDU. If the blue screens keep happening, gather the latest minidump files from C:\Windows\Minidump and share them; we can help you analyze those!
Hey, thanks for the response! I tested my RAM with MemTest and got 25 errors during test 8. What does that mean for me? Do I need to replace my RAM?