I wrote about random blue screen error message in my previous post when the random blue screen error message appear when one of my friend overclocked his processor. Another main factor that can cause random blue screen error message would be a faulty Random Access Memory (RAM) module. Even though the percentage of a RAM module became faulty is low, it does happen once in a while.

Most of motherboard nowadays integrate SPD (Serial Presence Detect) for RAM module speed setting in their motherboard, it is advisable to set the RAM module frequency to your default RAM module.

Serial Presence Detect (SPD) refers to a standardized way to automatically access information about a RAM module. It is the serial version of Parallel Presence Detect (PPD).

Sometimes SPD (Serial Presence Detect) can misconfigured the appropriate value for your RAM module, thus causing random blue screen error message. Usually, random blue screen error message caused by faulty RAM will appear when your Windows load, or during Windows operation.

If you encounter random blue screen error message after installing a new RAM module, make sure you do a quick check on your system BIOS on the RAM module setting. Random blue screen error message caused by faulty RAM module will disappear after the faulty RAM module is changed, or the RAM module setting are reset back to default.

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It is easy to diagnose, troubleshoot and repair blue screen error message if the same blue screen error message occure everytime the computer crash. But what if you get random blue screen error messages everytime the computer crash?

That’s what happened to my friend just now, when he call me through the phone.

The first thing I ask him is what was the last he thing he do to his windows before the random blue screen error messages occur evertime his computer crash. He told me he didn’t install anything before the random blue screen error messages appear. Then I ask him if he did anything with his hardware. He told me he add a new RAM module to his computer before the random blue error messages appear.

I told him to remove the new RAM module, and see if it solved the problem.

15 minutes later he call me again and told me the random blue screen messages still appear. I ask him again, besides adding the new RAM module, is there anything else that he did with his hardware before the random blue screen error messages appear everytime his computer crash that he forget to told me about. Suddenly he remember he overclocked his processor.

He overclocked his Intel Celeron 2.0Ghz to a whopping 2.6Ghz!

Overclocking is changing your processor speed to a higher value to squeeze out more performance from your processor. This technique can also be applied to RAM, graphic card, or anything that can be overclock

I told him to downclock it back to 2.0Ghz, install the new RAM module back, start the computer, wait and see if the random blue screen error messages everytime the computer crashes still occur. He doesn’t call me till now, and it has been 3 hours. I guess the random blue screen error messages problem have been solved.

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• Random blue screen error message cause by faulty RAM (6)
• Diagnosing Microsoft Windows XP blue screen (1)
• Blue screen when installing Microsoft Windows XP (1)
• Blue Screen of death after Microsoft Windows XP loading screen (2)