Memory Hard faults per second.

[Charles W Davis]

I have had a weeklong problem with a Computer Club member's computer.
Gateway, Windows Vista Home Premium.

I have done an upgrade install and things seem to be moving along quite
well. At the moment, it is downloading a bunch of updates. With the Resource
Monitor open Memory shows 10 to 100 Hard Faults per second. For comparison,
I am looking at my own Windows Vista computer, and don't see any "hard
faults."

What am I looking at?

 

[Chuck]

I'd be looking for a good memory tester, and running it for several hours.
It may be that the memory voltage or timing is incorrect. (BIOS settings)

 

[Michael Walraven]

Hard Fault is not a hardware problem. It refers to attempting to access
logical memory which is not currently in physical memory. That creates a
'fault' which the system uses to fetch that chunk of logical memory from the
hard drive into physical memory. Large numbers here mean that you need more
physical memory to reduce the swapping.

Michael

 

[Chuck]

I'd agree with that, except that I've also had marginal memory result in the
same "Hard Fault" indication.
Why, ??? Perhaps the data in physical memory failed some sort of check?