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From: "Bill Kingsbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: Infrequent and Irregular Windows Lockups
Bad RAM?
Run this, before leaving home, and let it run:
Windows Memory Diagnostic (make DOS floppy or CD)
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
Thanks a lot. I will give this a try. The perfect diagnostic software would
be a comprehensive digital line graph kept behind the scenes and constantly
written to a file on the hard drive. It should monitor every major hardware
function. It could not be comprehensive as it would require too many
resources. It should be very simple and show some kind of dip or spike that
happened and caused a lockup. It would take a constant write to the hard
drive to record a spike or dip in a line graph that happened a few
milliseconds before a lockup or power turn off. Once you got booted back up
you could examine the line graphs and print them if you wanted to. It would
be nice to have some way to see the spike or dip that caused the power shut
off or Windows lockup. Unless and until something like this is developed,
(unless it is already available) we have to resort to simple things like you
suggested, testing RAM etc. At least I have plenty of RAM and can change out
the RAM if I feel this will lead me to the discovery of the problem.
If the problem occurs in an hour or less, consistently, it is lots easier to
find with the process of elimination. Often I go for several hours without a
lockup.
Thanks,
Chuck
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