re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Friday, September 18, 2009 at 11:18 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (22031 messages posted) You don't run memtest from Windows. Boot with a DOS boot disk, and run memtest from a floppy disk or a CD. On Friday, September 18, 2009 at 9:29 am, sj022698 wrote: >Just reformatted someones computer and I’m pretty sure one of his RAM is bad. He’s >only got a total of 512 but I’m working with only one chip so he’s at 256…Anyway, >I installed XP Home and was working fine but today was getting the error 0x000000di >and the blue screen. I boot in safe mode as I was going to try to use memtest but >as soon as I hit any service, the CPU Usage jumps directly to 100%...Does the CPU >Usage have anything to do with the amount of RAM? There isn’t any viruses, spyware, >etc…I’ve got most startup services from msconfig disabled. However, I did install >AVG, Lavasoft, JAVA, Adobe Reader & Nero. > >Any thoughts? Is this just a RAM related issue? > >XP Home SP2 (was sp3 but did a restore to yesterday) Written in response to: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (sj022698: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 9:29 am) Responses to this message: re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (sj022698: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 1:46 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (sj022698: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 9:29 am) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (Ricer46: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 11:18 am) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (sj022698: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 1:46 pm) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (Ricer46: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 2:28 pm) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (Johnb33: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 2:36 pm) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (sj022698: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 4:07 pm) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (sj022698: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 4:44 pm) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (Arminius: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 5:22 pm) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (Ricer46: Sat, Sep 19, 2009, 6:14 am) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (sj022698: Sat, Sep 19, 2009, 7:03 am) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (Johnb33: Sat, Sep 19, 2009, 7:13 am) re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? (Adam Bradley: Sat, Sep 19, 2009, 6:59 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum