Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 6:24 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by editus
(6 messages posted)
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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