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Prohdgaming, if it is RAM we cannot say with minidumps, the only thing they may show is whether it is caused by memory corruption or not, but why memory corruption occured is another stadium of analysis.
Memory corruption has a wide range of causes, please read the quote.
Even though in many cases there are signs of specific components they are also often not present what is the issue with dumps, we cannot say if something is really THE cause until it is tested. Even when we analyze a dump as best as we can it can turn out to be something else, it is something I've had a few weeks ago where all signs were pointing to the hard drive but another component turned out to be faulty and the cause.Memory corruption is a thing that is the most coming back in the dumps, because the memory mechanism of Windows is extremely large and complicated. When memory corruption is shown the first step is to rule out the memory as best as possible. The next step is to rule out the drivers what can be done with driver verifier if none is flagged. If drivers are also not causing any problems then we (or at least myself) usually check for the hard drives. Hard drives can also cause memory corruption, as it is the non-volatile version of memory, but there are usually signs about hard drive problems when we suggest something for the hard drive. Another memory corruption is the VRAM, but when that happens there are also signs about it.