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From: Raymond on 7 Mar 2010 21:57 I had a computer freezing problem and was told it was the memory chip. Turns out it wasn't actually the chip but somewhere in the slot it sits in. After inserting a new chip the computer might run for a day or two before freezing. As I have a laptop there doesn't seem to be much I can do beyond avoiding that slot (which reduces me to the only other slot and 512MB max). I bought a MemTest-86 bootable CD-Rom memory diagnostic program from BradyTech Inc; haven't tried to boot up with it yet though (with a chip in the slot that has the bad spot in it somewhere) partly because I would probably have to run the thing days and then all I would get is conformation of what I already know. I wish there was a way to ignore/bypass whatever is bad in the slot (like can be done on hard drives) but I don't think that is possible. Anyone know differently?? So I am posting this mostly just in case someone else's problem is the same, yet the possibility of a bad slot rather than the chip in it never occured to them. I suppose it could be repaired in a PC but I am told it can not be done in a notebook. -- Thank you, Raymond "dennisburke" wrote: > A few months ago I started having problems with BSOD's so I used Windows > Memory Diagnostic to test and it ran through the tests multiple times with no > errors. A month or so ago I started getting more BSOD's so I ran WMD again > and it found an error and the test stopped running. I rebooted and ran the > test again and the test ran through multiple times with no problems. I'm > still having problems with BSOD's so I decided to run WMD again and it found > an error again and stopped running. I rebooted and ran the test again and > this time it froze without finding an error and I was not allowed to exit the > program. I rebooted again and the test froze again. Does anybody have a clue > to what might be going on? Memory? BIOS? Program?
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 8 Mar 2010 13:11
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:57:02 -0800, Raymond <Raymond(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I had a computer freezing problem and was told it was the memory chip. Turns > out it wasn't actually the chip but somewhere in the slot it sits in. After > inserting a new chip the computer might run for a day or two before freezing. > As I have a laptop there doesn't seem to be much I can do beyond avoiding > that slot (which reduces me to the only other slot and 512MB max). It depends on what apps you run, but with XP 512MB might be fine for you and worth a try. Especially with a laptop, there's a good chance that what you run will do fine with 612MB. > I bought a > MemTest-86 bootable CD-Rom memory diagnostic program from BradyTech Inc; > haven't tried to boot up with it yet though (with a chip in the slot that has > the bad spot in it somewhere) partly because I would probably have to run the > thing days and then all I would get is conformation of what I already know. I > wish there was a way to ignore/bypass whatever is bad in the slot (like can > be done on hard drives) but I don't think that is possible. Anyone know > differently?? So I am posting this mostly just in case someone else's problem > is the same, yet the possibility of a bad slot rather than the chip in it > never occured to them. I suppose it could be repaired in a PC but I am told > it can not be done in a notebook. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |