Bad memory?

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I've been having trouble for a little while now, so I replaced my HD and
installed Windows XP. At first, it appeared to work OK, but it gets unstable
quickly - simple things like trying to get to My Computer or Control Panel --
I get incomplete icons in the windows or a dialog box with "insufficient
resources...", or it just hangs up all together.
Are these sypmtoms of bad RAM, or is it likely that something else is going
on??
 
double check
your harddrive connections.

they may be wobbly or
the cabling may be frayed.

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You download it from memtest.org then create bootable media to run the
diagnostics, did you click the link that was provided?
 
Sorry for the earlier response...I should have read it more closely. I'll
give it a try...
 
SteveW said:
I've been having trouble for a little while now, so I replaced my HD and
installed Windows XP. At first, it appeared to work OK, but it gets
unstable
quickly - simple things like trying to get to My Computer or Control
Panel --
I get incomplete icons in the windows or a dialog box with "insufficient
resources...", or it just hangs up all together.
Are these sypmtoms of bad RAM, or is it likely that something else is
going
on??
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I doubt those are symptoms of bad RAM. Real RAM errors are detected at a
very low level and usually cause the system to suddenly reboot. If the
system shuts down and is hard to get to restart, it's sometimes bad RAM or
support circuitry caused by heat. This is fixed by replacement, though
it's hard and expensive to figure out what exactly to replace.

File corruption and drive errors, however, can cause this kind of problem,
leading to solid freezes.

It may be that the drive is incorrectly configured, is defective, cables are
loose or damaged, or any of a host of software problems.

HTH
-pk
 
I'm flailing away - not the most educated on this stuff. Recent issue -
tried to check device manager, got a dialog box for Microsoft Management
Console - "MMC cannot open the file C:\windows\system32\devmgmt.msc"
Then I got "Cannot launch c:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe, not a vaild WIN32
application"

Still checking the RAM using DOCMEM...have reloaded Windows XP about 4 times
in the last couple of days...seems to work for a little while, the starts
getting odd - incomplete dialog boxes, etc..
 
SteveW said:
I'm flailing away - not the most educated on this stuff. Recent issue -
tried to check device manager, got a dialog box for Microsoft Management
Console - "MMC cannot open the file C:\windows\system32\devmgmt.msc"
Then I got "Cannot launch c:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe, not a vaild
WIN32
application"

Still checking the RAM using DOCMEM...have reloaded Windows XP about 4
times
in the last couple of days...seems to work for a little while, the starts
getting odd - incomplete dialog boxes, etc..
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Do you have another drive? If so, yank this one and put in antother, do a
quick reinstall (from partition deletition and recreation) and see what
happens. Don't bother activating at this point.

This will tell you if it's the drive, or the memory or other board
components.

HTH
-pk
 
I just did that...brand new Western Digital...
DOCMEM doesn't appear to have found anything...

I need to open up and make sure the whole thing is clean and the cooling fan
is functioning..
 
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