Windows XP Hardware crashes

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i aggree with the possible RAM issue, but i'm concerned about the heat
issue.
my AMD 2 ghz , 768 DDR, on a Gigabyte board, is in the hottest room in the
house and has been running non-stop (short about 12 reboots) for a year
now, and it maintains 32c.
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Two points:

Please learn to use capital letters correctly.

32 degrees celsius is comfortably cool for a CPU.

Perhaps your problem is that you're using Micro$oft software instead of
good software.


Divine
 
T-Boy said:
As slow as it's going to be - you should run up the PC on the 64Mb RAM
/and then 128 RAM - see how it goes under both those situations. If
you're getting crashes *only* while *both* RAM is loaded - well, it's
not rocket science is it :)

Your STOP info points to illegally addressed RAM - another hint on the
RAM.

BTW, this may not be bad RAM, but incompatability amoung the RAM you
have. Perhaps you can borrow a 256Mb stick of SDRAM and try it out? Or
even purchase on trademe or a 2nd hand shop (new price on say Tastech,
is $80 incls GST for "Generic PC133, 256Mb").

Have you checked out the Event Log yet?
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Took out the 64 MB first - two more crashes. Then put the 64 MB back in and
took out the 128 MB. Stable so far but very slow.

Last error recorded was a Stop D1 which is a driver error.
 
SchoolTech said:
Took out the 64 MB first - two more crashes. Then put the 64 MB back in
and took out the 128 MB. Stable so far but very slow.

Last error recorded was a Stop D1 which is a driver error.
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And before the lad here had his smart arse fit while seeing another chance
to have ago at me. Do you remember who said that it could be the RAM, along
with just a number of other possibilities.

Sell the rubbish off and get some decent PCs with at least 256MB RAM and
video cards instead of shared memory of course. 512MB RAM would be the
real goods. Damn sight cheaper these days than the crap that you're playing
around with ever was when it was new in it's day.
Minor upgrades are worth it. Big upgrades are quite easy if down right -
the whole lot out the window replaced with a completely new system.

E. Scrooge
 
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