The dreaded BSOD (Blue Screen Of The Death) , also known as “blue screenshots”, are the way that the Windows operating system has to tell us that something is wrong, and that “something” is usually generally related to hardware or device drivers / firmware . In this case, if you are suffering a blue screen that gives an error related to ” Memory Management “, we are going to teach you why it happens and what you can do to fix it.
In this case, as you will suppose by its name, the BSOD Memory Management has a lot to do with the system’s RAM, but be careful because this may not be the only cause of it, and now we are going to explain it to you.
The reason why you may occasionally experience this blue screen is because, when we start the computer, the BIOS POST performs a check of the RAM; It is a superficial check of the same, but if it detects that something is not as it should, the system does not start and the mentioned blue screen is shown. It may be because the RAM has not been completely emptied on shutdown, because corrupt data has been left somewhere, or even because some boot file has been corrupted in Windows. Let’s see it.
If you have the Memory Management error, check the RAM
As a general rule, even though you receive this error from time to time, the PC will end up booting, although there are cases in which your activity could be interrupted and another blue screen might pop up while you are using the PC because of it first. In any case, the first thing you should do is check the status of the RAM, and for this you have several alternatives.
Windows 10 Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows 10 has a built-in tool to check the status of RAM memory. Just click on the Start button and type “Windows Memory Diagnostic” or even “mdsched” (it is the name of the executable).
When starting the program, we will be asked if we want to restart the computer now to check if there are problems with the RAM, or if we want to program it for the next time the computer is restarted (we can also cancel). Since if you have reached this point it is because you are receiving the BSOD that we are treating, we recommend you restart right now so that it runs.
When you restart the computer, a blue and gray screen will appear with the diagnostic program running. Here we can select one of the three available operating modes: Basic, Standard or Extended . The basic level is the one that takes the least time but is very simple, so we recommend that you choose either the Standard or even the Extended test.
Memtest86
If the Windows Diagnostic Tool does not show any errors, it is best to make sure using a third party tool like Memtest86. It is a free software that will allow you to boot the system from a USB pen drive (recommended so that there is no RAM memory in use, with the operating system still not booting) and check the status of RAM memory.
If Memtest86 or the Windows Diagnostic Tool shows errors, then either one of your RAM modules has broken or you may have Overclock issues , so we also recommend that you disable any Overclock you have in your processor or RAM.
If the BSOD Memory Management is not caused by RAM
If after following the previous steps no problem has been detected in the RAM memory but you still suffer from the BSOD, then the problem will be caused by other paths, and the first thing you should do is check the integrity of the system files.
To do this, open a Command Prompt console as Administrator (right click on Start -> Command Prompt (administrator)) and run the command chkdsk / f / r. This will perform a quick check to see if there are any corrupt system files, and if so, the system itself will try to fix it.
As you see in the image above, it will tell you that it cannot be run with the system booted and that if you want it to run the next time you start Windows. Say yes and restart to run.
If you still have problems after this, reopen a Command Prompt window as administrator and run the command DISM / online / cleanup-image / restorehealth . This command can take a long time (up to 30 minutes or even longer) to execute, so just be patient. Like the previous one, it will detect any problem and try to correct it automatically.
If after having done all this you still have the same problem, we recommend you either try a different RAM or restore Windows 10 .