>I am having these random, fatal crashes. I built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-8INXP
>mobo with 3.06 GHz Intel and 4x512 memory modules that are matched. I put in two
>Seagate 7200.7 SATA HDs as a striped RAID. I had Win2K at first and I upgraded with
>a hope that WinXP would help. XP did help me with messages that told me what was
>going on whereas 2K didn't. XP told me that device driver problems were the cause
>but it couldn't tell which driver. I saw here where the memory could be the problem
>so I used two modules in all combinations. When I did this the computer seemed to
>be OK. No problems. However, all of the modules worked OK. I did use different memory
>slots as I tested to see if the slots were bad. When I put all the memory back in
>(not in the same places as originally) the problem came back. Is there something
>about Windows or ... that needs to be adjusted or configured so it can handle 2 gig.
>The BIOS seems to find it by itself just fine. The machine does work really well
>with 'only' 1 gig but I paid for all that memory and I would really like to use it.
>Thanks for any ideas.

Written in response to: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (editus: Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 6:24 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (editus: Monday, December 22, 2003 at 12:34 pm)

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