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re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)'
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 12:09 pm
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Posted by Wayne (1 messages posted)


I've encountered a very similar problem with Dell computers. The system freezes up randomly and even the optical mouse light goes out. The first obvious thing to check is your power connections, but if they're okay, you probably have a bad motherboard.


On Monday, August 22, 2005 at 7:32 am, Michael Hollingsworth wrote:
>Not sure if this is related to bad memory or not, but I too have a Toshiba A75-S206,
>running Windows XP Home Edition SP2, P4 with 448M RAM. My system periodically freezes
>up. Even the light on the optical mouse goes out. I thought it was related to Windows
>Office, because for a long time it seemed to happen only when I was running Word
>or Excel. However, recently, the box was sitting idle for a few moments with nothing
>but Yahoo Messenger running and it frooze up. The only way to get it running again
>is to reboot which of course loses anything you may have been working on. Any thoughts?
> I have had 2 other Toshiba, running Windows XP Professional and 2000 and have not
>had this problem before.
>
>
>


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re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Michael Hollingsworth: Monday, August 22, 2005 at 7:32 am)

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-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Donna Price: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 5:44 pm)
-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (triplate: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 6:45 pm)
-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Donna Price: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 7:00 pm)
-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (triplate: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 7:12 pm)
-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Peter: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 7:56 pm)
-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (triplate: Fri, Mar 11, 2005, 8:07 pm)
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*re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Psilo: Wed, Apr 20, 2005, 7:13 pm)
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