re: Free RAM tester Monday, December 29, 2003 at 11:11 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Gowest (1 messages posted) My system dies (i.e. black screen and system halts) almost instantly everytime I boot up "Black Hawk Down", sometimes just listening MP3. The shop replaced the display card for me but it still got the same symptom. I have ruled out the possibilities of PSU and overheating inside the case. Now I am almost certain that it's caused by the faulty RAM. Thanks for suggesting the site for downloading the RAM tester Ruthran it really helps. On Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 7:36 pm, Ruthran wrote: >Hi all. Just thought I'd let people know that you can get a free mem tester at http://hcidesign.com/memtest/ > >I was tearing my hair out cos my system would always crash during games, but be fine >whilst running windows normally. I'd done a wipe and stripped the software and drivers >to bare-bones and was positive it was a cooling problem as my AMD was running a little >hot so I bought a huge fan/heatsink for my CPU. Still crashed so I tested the mem >and found a heap of errors. Turns out the ram was screwy but it would only show up >once the system started thrashing it (games, 3dMAX, DivX encoding etc). >Hope it helps people. > >Cheers Written in response to: Free RAM tester (Ruthran: Saturday, May 24, 2003 at 7:36 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Keppie: Fri, Jun 7, 2002, 12:08 am) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Vipers: Fri, Jun 7, 2002, 1:03 am) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Keppie: Fri, Jun 7, 2002, 3:31 pm) VIA Motherboard (Nik: Mon, Dec 30, 2002, 12:46 pm) re: VIA Motherboard (Dave G: Wed, Feb 12, 2003, 3:07 am) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (patrick : Sat, Jun 8, 2002, 4:37 am) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Vipers: Sat, Jun 8, 2002, 5:56 am) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Jason Medlin: Tue, Jun 10, 2003, 5:41 pm) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Vipers: Wed, Jun 11, 2003, 1:32 am) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Julian Ball: Tue, Aug 13, 2002, 4:20 am) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (ian summerfeldt: Mon, Aug 9, 2004, 4:23 am) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (shelli: Wed, Feb 19, 2003, 1:10 pm) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Mark: Wed, Apr 30, 2003, 5:27 am) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Roy Ramey: Tue, May 6, 2003, 4:41 pm) Free RAM tester (Ruthran: Sat, May 24, 2003, 7:36 pm) re: Free RAM tester (Gowest: Mon, Dec 29, 2003, 11:11 pm) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Kim: Tue, Oct 14, 2003, 7:47 pm) re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (gpizarro: Thu, Mar 30, 2006, 9:49 am) re: Question about 'Windows 2000, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (problem: Mon, Nov 15, 2004, 2:59 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum