On 11/24/2010 7:42 AM, Barry wrote:
> Every few days, I walk back into the shack and see the Blue
> Screen of Death on my monitor. it says, "Hardware malfunction
> Parity Check/Memory Parity Error. I'm using a Dell Inspiron
> laptop with WinXP.
> Any ideas? Does this mean the laptop is on its way out?
That would be the first conclusion that one would jump to, but
wait....
On my wife's mini-tower running XP Pro SP3, the "cannot find
boot drive" would come up frequently, sometimes within an hour
after rebooting. It was clean-up time:
Make sure you have a full backup of all partitions.
Run VIPRE (virus/malware program) - no malware.
Run Registry Mechanic - found and repaired several hundred
registry errors.
Clean caches - dumps all sorts of stuff. (XP has a facility
for that)
Reseat connectors for hard drive and memory sticks.
It took several cycles of the above to really clean it up, but
it hasn't misbehaved since - we leave it on 24/7.
-- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402
______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:[email protected]
This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
