[Ham-Computers] Intermittent Computer lockup under Norton
Paul Ahkolik
[email protected]
Sun, 19 May 2002 01:16:55 +0000
George,
Norton has a bug in it's diagnostics. It will show you having bad ram, when
you don't.
When I ran Norton 2001 (Later 2002), it showed me having bad ram.
When I deleted Norton & swithced on Ontrack, my "Ram problems" dissapeared.
PC Pitstop also says I don NOT have a ram problem.
Paul W5PDA
>I have an almost identical system running Norton Utilities, AV, etc. for a
>long time. It started acting as you describe and the cause was a flakey
>memory stick in Bank 2.
>
>Before making the change from Norton, run the Norton Diagnostic program on
>your system and see what it uncovers.
>
>--
>73/72/oo, George W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas
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