I was experiencing random BSs - error msg reasons were random. Finally
dwnld'd and ran a memory check. The fourth stick in a 2G configuration was
bad.
What I do not understand is that applications seemed to work properly, no
hint of a problem (other than the fact that the machine would crash and
usually not when a appl was running!).
Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:58:16 GMT from WGD <wgd.roaming@verizon.net>:
> I was experiencing random BSs - error msg reasons were random. Finally
> dwnld'd and ran a memory check. The fourth stick in a 2G configuration was
> bad.
I had a similar situation in 2005 -- second of two sticks in a 1 GB.
> What I do not understand is that applications seemed to work properly, no
> hint of a problem (other than the fact that the machine would crash and
> usually not when a appl was running!).
There are a lot of dark corners to memory management. When you've got
2 GB, a lot of the time not all of it's used. Maybe Windows used that
upper memory for some sort of maintenance task when there weren't
user programs running.
Anyway, you and I have learned the same lesson: when you get repeated
Blue Screens of Death, pop in your CD of the free software from www.memtest.org.
A question for you Stan and all: The PF file (or virtual memory), as I
write this 552MB is being used. Since RAM is not overloaded in any way (OE
appl with IE), why is RAM using swap space??
Best,
WayneDengel
PS where is Tomkins County? Used to travel the back roads from Northern NJ
to Utica (Cornell) as well as Buffalo and Toronto. Did I go through
Tomkins?
"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:58:16 GMT from WGD <wgd.roaming@verizon.net>:
>> I was experiencing random BSs - error msg reasons were random. Finally
>> dwnld'd and ran a memory check. The fourth stick in a 2G configuration
>> was
>> bad.
>
> I had a similar situation in 2005 -- second of two sticks in a 1 GB.
>
>> What I do not understand is that applications seemed to work properly, no
>> hint of a problem (other than the fact that the machine would crash and
>> usually not when a appl was running!).
>
> There are a lot of dark corners to memory management. When you've got
> 2 GB, a lot of the time not all of it's used. Maybe Windows used that
> upper memory for some sort of maintenance task when there weren't
> user programs running.
>
> Anyway, you and I have learned the same lesson: when you get repeated
> Blue Screens of Death, pop in your CD of the free software from
> www.memtest.org.
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:40:41 GMT from WGD <wgd.roaming@verizon.net>:
> A question for you Stan and all: The PF file (or virtual memory), as I
> write this 552MB is being used. Since RAM is not overloaded in any way (OE
> appl with IE), why is RAM using swap space??
I'll give you the honest answer: I don't know. But it does seem to
happen.
One question mark: maybe the swap file is there, but not being used.
I don't think Windows necessarily reduces the swap file size just
because it's not all being used at the moment.
> PS where is Tomkins County? Used to travel the back roads from Northern NJ
> to Utica (Cornell) as well as Buffalo and Toronto. Did I go through
> Tomkins?
Do you mean Ithaca? Utica is a couple of hours to the northeast, but
I don't know of any Utica connection to Cornell.
Ithaca is the county seat of Tompkins (not Tomkins) County, and
Cornell occupies much of the area of Ithaca (both the City and the
surrounding Town).
BSOD - Problem solved 
Linear Mode
