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re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Friday, September 18, 2009 at 11:18 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 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) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Friday, September 18, 2009 at 1:46 pm Posted by sj022698 (61 messages posted) I thoutht you could run the standard from windows and the deluxe has to be from disc? http://hcidesign.com/memtest/manual.html#How to use it On Friday, September 18, 2009 at 11:18 am, Ricer46 wrote: >You don't run memtest from Windows. Boot with a DOS boot disk, and run memtest from >a floppy disk or a CD. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Friday, September 18, 2009 at 2:28 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) Guess they went commercial. From your link, the third paragraph essentially says that they don't have anything free that works. Didn't used to be that way. On Friday, September 18, 2009 at 1:46 pm, sj022698 wrote: >I thoutht you could run the standard from windows and the deluxe has to be from disc? >http://hcidesign.com/memtest/manual.html#How to use it > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Friday, September 18, 2009 at 2:36 pm Posted by Johnb33 (2283 messages posted) You are using the wrong site for memtest. Use this one. http://www.memtest.org/#downiso On Friday, September 18, 2009 at 1:46 pm, sj022698 wrote: >I thoutht you could run the standard from windows and the deluxe has to be from disc? >http://hcidesign.com/memtest/manual.html#How to use it > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Friday, September 18, 2009 at 4:07 pm Posted by sj022698 (61 messages posted) Thank you. I'll check that out. Assuming one is bad and that I only have one chip in there currently, would the low amount of ram cause all these issues? On Friday, September 18, 2009 at 2:36 pm, Johnb33 wrote: >You are using the wrong site for memtest. Use this one. > >http://www.memtest.org/#downiso > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Friday, September 18, 2009 at 4:44 pm Posted by sj022698 (61 messages posted) I apologize for my ignorance but should I use the Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip) and I'm sorry but I can't find the instructions??? On Friday, September 18, 2009 at 2:36 pm, Johnb33 wrote: >You are using the wrong site for memtest. Use this one. > >http://www.memtest.org/#downiso > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:22 pm Posted by Arminius (334 messages posted) The free version of MemTest you tried from http://hcidesign.com/memtest/download.html should work even though it states it can't check every byte under Windows. I have used this same version before myself. If you can't even get MemTest to run properly then those few bytes that can't be tested under Windows won't make any difference. If you are lucky only the RAM is bad and it's not a sign the motherboard is on it's way out. Why don't you swap out the the stick of RAM in the computer with the other stick you have and see what happens. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 6:14 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) The problem is that the OS requires so much properly running memory, that if you don't have it, them the test program can't run. That's why it should be run from a DOS prompt. Of course it will work fine either way if you have no memory problem. On Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:22 pm, Arminius wrote: >The free version of MemTest you tried from >http://hcidesign.com/memtest/download.html >should work even though it states it can't check every byte under Windows. I have >used this same version before myself. > >If you can't even get MemTest to run properly then those few bytes that can't be >tested under Windows won't make any difference. > >If you are lucky only the RAM is bad and it's not a sign the motherboard is on it's >way out. > >Why don't you swap out the the stick of RAM in the computer with the other stick >you have and see what happens. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 7:03 am Posted by sj022698 (61 messages posted) What origianlly happened wa that I went to reformat and was getting an error code 4 so I took out one of the sticks and it still happened. So I then just swapped that chip with the one I had just taken out and it worked fine. That is why I think that one chip is bad. Is that not a good assumption? On Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:22 pm, Arminius wrote: >The free version of MemTest you tried from >http://hcidesign.com/memtest/download.html >should work even though it states it can't check every byte under Windows. I have >used this same version before myself. > >If you can't even get MemTest to run properly then those few bytes that can't be >tested under Windows won't make any difference. > >If you are lucky only the RAM is bad and it's not a sign the motherboard is on it's >way out. > >Why don't you swap out the the stick of RAM in the computer with the other stick >you have and see what happens. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 7:13 am Posted by Johnb33 (2283 messages posted) Thats a very good assumption. You can always put that stick back in and just run memtest on it to be sure. You download the iso for a cd, which is best in my opinion, and then burn the iso image to a cd and then boot to it. It will automatically start scanning the memory. Use the site I posted earlier to download the iso. On Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 7:03 am, sj022698 wrote: >What origianlly happened wa that I went to reformat and was getting an error code >4 so I took out one of the sticks and it still happened. So I then just swapped that >chip with the one I had just taken out and it worked fine. That is why I think that >one chip is bad. Is that not a good assumption? > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Is the RAM causing ALL these problems??? Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 6:59 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8786 messages posted) it is a good deduction and likely correct, RAM like all things in a computer can go out on you. Could be a fluke failure or a power surge got it, even if you have a surge protector it can still happen. On Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 7:03 am, sj022698 wrote: >What origianlly happened wa that I went to reformat and was getting an error code >4 so I took out one of the sticks and it still happened. So I then just swapped that >chip with the one I had just taken out and it worked fine. That is why I think that >one chip is bad. Is that not a good assumption? > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum