re: still need help
Sunday, June 8, 2003 at 12:50 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ben Earhart
(2 messages posted)
So far so good! cleaned the RAM sticks and no crashes yet!
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 6:12 pm, Ben Earhart wrote:
>My machine does this occasionally. Funnily enough, usually in the mornings - I
think
>before its heated up. From what I can tell, these STOPs are memory related. One
>thing you can always try (I just did yesterday) is cleaning the contacts on your
>ram sticks. To clean the contacts you remove the stick (this works for cards as
>well), use a pencil eraser and rub all of the gold contacts thoroughly. After that,
>take a cotton swap (q-tip) soaked with alcohol (90% isopropyl is great) and clean
>by rubbing the swap back and forth across the contacts. Dry and give it a good
blow
>(no spittle!) to get rid of any stray cotton bits. Replace RAM. You'd be surprised
>at how often this works.
>
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