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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 12:48 pm
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Posted by VinceO (198 messages posted)

You mentioned "it is not the memory... the reason is Win98 functions flawlessly!!!" Do not be misled. A RAM failure can be fatal to one operating system without being fatal to others which use a different memory layout. For example, I looked at the crash dumps from the system mentioned in http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/r1029856919. The system ran Win98SE and Linux, but crashed with WinXP. I thought for sure this would be a software problem, but it turned out to be bad RAM. If I had your system, I would definitely run a RAM exerciser like memtest86.


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Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Youtongfu: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 9:31 am)

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*re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Youtongfu: Friday, August 30, 2002 at 10:27 am)

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-Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Youtongfu: Wed, Aug 28, 2002, 9:31 am)
-re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Carl D: Wed, Aug 28, 2002, 10:04 am)
*re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Bob B: Wed, Aug 28, 2002, 10:42 am)
*re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (triplate: Wed, Aug 28, 2002, 10:13 am)
*re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (triplate: Wed, Aug 28, 2002, 10:15 am)
*re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (HC: Wed, Aug 28, 2002, 11:02 am)
-re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (VinceO: Wed, Aug 28, 2002, 12:48 pm)
-re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Youtongfu: Fri, Aug 30, 2002, 10:27 am)
*re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (ar3030: Sun, Apr 24, 2005, 7:00 am)
*re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (th14: Fri, Aug 30, 2002, 3:01 pm)
*re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Brian King: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 10:31 am)
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