Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 6:10 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Peter A. Goodwin
(1 messages posted)
I experienced almost daily crashes for the first seven
months on a new motherboard and hardware. It finally
dawned on me that the consistent comments on the
various bug checks was "possible memory error". I
obtained a really good memory diagnostic (GoldMemory
v6.68) and found that several hundred memory locations
were experiencing bit-15 picks or bit-17 drops. Just by
chance, I moved my 512-Mb module from one memory
socket to another, and the problem disappeared!! I
haven't had a crash in the last month. Could've been
anything, but I suspect that it had something to do with
ringing on those data bus lines that was compromised
(and later alleviated) by critical path length.
SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
Case: Standard tower style; vented by two auxiliary fans plus power-supply exhaust
fan.
Front auxiliary fan is oriented as an intake fan; rear auxiliary fan is oriented
as an exhaust fan.
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Inc., ATX style 425-watt Turbo-Cool Deluxe, with
integral exhaust fan.
Motherboard: Abit model KV8-MAX3, with a VIA K8T800 + VT8237 integrated chipset.
S/N label reads: "RD880414064004700 KV8 v1.0"
Front and rear auxiliary fans powered from AUXFAN2 and AUXFAN1,
respectively; auxiliary fan speeds cannot be controlled.
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ currently running at about 2000 MHz.
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG (K8T800-8237-6A7L0A19C-22), 06/29/2004.
Voltages and fan speeds use factory settings. CPU frequency set to 200 (200/66/33)
MHz. DRAM timing set by SPD.
Socket DIMM2: 512MB DDR SDRAM Memory, Centon Electronics model PC3200 (400 MHz),
p/n 512MBPC3200,
date code = 0430. Other module board labeling: “IITG18TVC” and “PO#174585”.
Socket AGP1: Video Controller
Nvidia GeForce MX4000 64 Mb DDR P/N: 064-A8-NV93-LX S/N: 46123576544
Socket PCI2: V.92 PCI 56K FaxModem
US Robotics model 5610B S/N: 2MCCY81E0031 installed 17 January 2005
Socket PCI3: PCI Parallel Port
Intek21 model TK99
02, p/n TK-P01E12 S/N: T02442600280 reinstalled 26 March 2005
Disk I/O: Primary IDE master drive is Western Digital WD800JB-00ETA0, 80 Gb nominal;
(logical drive C:, runs in Ultra-DMA mode).
Primary IDE slave drive is Maxtor 90650U2, 6 Gb nominal;
(logical drive D:, runs in Ultra-DMA mode).
Secondary IDE master drive is CD R/W CDWriter IE5232
(logical drive F:, runs in Ultra-DMA mode).
Secondary IDE slave drive is Iomega Zip 100
(logical drive E:, runs in PIO mode).
Floppy drive (logical A:).
Boot order: Floppy; CD; hard drive C:. Set up for dual-boot, default to C: (Windows
2000).
O/S: Operating system on C: is Windows 2000 version 5.00.2195 with SP 4 installed.
Operating system on D: is Windows 98SE version 4.0.2222.
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