System Flakyness

Technomage plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 04 Jul 2001 18:13:19 -0700


better have the ram checked..
thats in indication you've got flaky ram there.

Technomage Hawke

Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> OK, not totally linux related, but hoping someone might have some suggestions.
> I have an Athlon 650 running Win98SE (yeah I know, boo, hiss), but I use it for
> games and such that don't exist for linux (Everquest).  My system has been
> acting up (Blue Screen of Death, etc...) and since these behaviors seem to have
> become a common occurance (well more often than usual) in recent months I'm
> beginning to suspect hardware trouble.  I was wondering if anyone knew of a
> utility (windows, dos or linux) that could do things like test my systems memory
> for errors to see if that is the culprit.
> 
> I suspect the memory more than an overheat because the errors only seem to occur
> when I'm playing EverQuest, and EQ needs far more memory than anything else I
> use on the system.  It currently has just 1 stick of PC133 128MB RAM.
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