re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)'
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at 8:45 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
The link to that mem checker from MS gets posted here all the time if one just searches
for it... Another piece of advice I am always posting is to remove the modules,
take a pencil eraser and clean off both sides of the contacts. Re-insert and try
your test again. You would be surprised how many modules get "fixed" with a good
cleaning.
On Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 9:53 pm, Mark Lemke wrote:
>After fruitless months of 98 freezing up, I decided to break down and get XP. I
could
>not properly install it. So I decided on a clean 98.. It too, failing to load. So
>I went to the microsoft site out of frustration and they have a nice clean utility
>that check your RAM to make sure it's not your system over loading. I'll post the
>link to save on searching; http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp .It runs at boot
>just follow the instructions. I found one of my RAM cards bad, removed it and loaded
>XP on just two of them. Replaced the bad card later.
>
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