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.

Written in response to: Bad Memory-Solutions for unremovable RAM? (yutzyem: Friday, October 3, 2003 at 5:55 pm) Responses to this message: re: Bad Memory- Checking (yutzyem: Saturday, October 4, 2003 at 7:35 pm)

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