re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 at 7:01 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tom Booth
(2 messages posted)
Check in your bios if u have something called performance acceleration technology
enabled(PAT) if so that will not like running UN-buffered ram modules 512 and up
to avert crashes without changing to new ram disable pat or some motherboards require
that you underclock your ram and the pat goes with it. This fixed my problem in my
system
On Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 6:24 pm, editus wrote:
>I have a question about Top
>reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:
>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.
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