on 7/9/02 9:32 PM, Mike at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was giving my 8500 a battery of Tech Tool Pro 3 tests while booted > from the CD and I decided to subject my two 128MB interleaved DIMMS > (purchased from OWC 3 months ago and passed basic testing previously) > with some of the "extra" tests on the TT3 RAM tester. Everything > went well up until the last test called "Major March" whereupon my > computer froze instantly. I soft-restarted and rebooted from the CD > and tried the "Minor March" RAM test, one that I skipped on the last > try, and this also caused an instant freeze. These two tests take a very long time to complete. The Major March test can take days. When you start this test the only activity is one blinking pixel to indicate that your computer has not frozen. This might be what is occurring. So perhaps this may be what you think is a freeze. That said, however if it is a freeze then I don't know what, other then bad ram. >Snip > mike
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