re: Bad Memory- Checking
Saturday, October 4, 2003 at 5:24 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
If the memory on the system board is bad, you are kind of stuck. Short of getting
the system board replaced under warranty or paying to have it fixed. Some system
do have a way to disable blocks of memory. It would be located in the details of
the BIOS CMOS Setup somewhere if it exists. Look. Then ask a Compaq's web site.
To run a good memory test. Get both DocMemory_v2.0 and MemTest86_v3.0 and make their boot diskettes. Boot using
them and run an extended memory test on your system. If it does not fail on these
tests, its not a memory problem. Let each one run over night. Could be an over heating
problem.
Windows ME can get a lot of hangs caused by bad device drivers. Back level ones
cause problems. And spyware/Adware and Vrius/Trojans. etc. See: Windows ME Fixes for a whole
list of sequential checks and changes to make Windows ME run a lot better.
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