On 11/24/2010 8:30 AM, Phil Kane wrote: > 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 > Sounds like you have some memory going bad. There is memory testing software free on the internet..
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