Dragon of Life (
dragonoflife) wrote2006-08-15 02:27 pm
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Computer Problems Update:
I popped the hood on NV and did some minor work. Removed the modem, checked the seating of all the cards. Swapped the memory popsitions and reseated them. Cleaned off the heatsink.
I ran as many system diagnostics as I could and didn't come up with anything.
Turning off the automatic restart got me a stop error code: 0x0000007F. As near as I can tell this means something in my hardware is screwed.
Sigh.
I popped the hood on NV and did some minor work. Removed the modem, checked the seating of all the cards. Swapped the memory popsitions and reseated them. Cleaned off the heatsink.
I ran as many system diagnostics as I could and didn't come up with anything.
Turning off the automatic restart got me a stop error code: 0x0000007F. As near as I can tell this means something in my hardware is screwed.
Sigh.
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There are also some decent boot-from-disk memory testers out there that aren't to hard to find.
It definitely sounds like a memory flaw or a hardrive failure in a system file to me.
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I haven't gotten around to taking out just one stick because all the stuff I would want to do would require more than one stick can provide anyway, so it doesn't actually matter. Since I'm piss-poor and will never be able to afford new memory again as long as I live, it ultimately works out the same whether I keep the stick in and can't use it or take the stick out and can't use programs.
Still, it's very odd, to me, that the problem only occurs when the computer is actually working hard. Wouldn't a bad piece of memory be just as likely to be accessed during a routine task as during an intensive one?
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