[Ham-Computers] Computer reboots itself (insubordinant sucker)

[don]

Personally I think you have a BAD RAM STICK

Don
Semper Vigilis
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <WA5CAB at cs.com>
To: <Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:57 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Computer reboots itself (insubordinant sucker)


> Group,
>
> My computer just rebooted itself when I closed a web page.  Blue screen 
> with
> a bunch of white letters and writing.  The only thing I was able to read
> before the screen went black was "Page fault in unpaged area".  This is 
> about the
> fifth time that this has happened with most of this hardware.  The 
> previous
> times either I was too dumfounded and too slow to manage to read what was 
> on the
> screen (it was only visible for about 2 seconds and I just happened to be
> looking at the spot on the screen where it was printed) or I wasn't in the 
> room.
>
> I assume, from the text, that it was a memory error.  But does anyone know
> whether the clue points to system board, CPU or memory?
>
> Background:  OS is Windows 2000, all updates through yesterday.  About two
> months ago, I got tired of the idiosyncracies of the previous 930 MHz 
> system
> board and bought a new Gigabyte board with a 3.4 GHz Intel CPU (matching 
> fan,
> etc.), two 512 MB DDR Ram boards (couldn't use the 1.5 GB from the old 
> board) and
> a new 350 watt power supply (previous one did not have the 4-pin 12 Volt
> cable).  Six EIDE hard drives, IDE CDRW drive, RAID controller, video 
> board, PCI
> printer board, keyboard, monitor and tower case with its switches and 
> LED's
> were carried over.  I did not like the Gigabyte board (BIOS problems in 
> getting
> it to boot from the RAID controller, etc.) but that's neither here nor 
> there.
> I finally managed to get all of the application software reinstalled and 
> the
> machine back up.  About three hours later the machine rebooted itself.  I 
> had
> my back to the monitor and only caught a glimpse of white letters on a 
> blue
> screen before the screen went black.  That was Saturday afternoon.  On 
> Monday it
> happened again twice.  Once, I thought it said what I wrote above.  I 
> called
> Micro Center's help line but all that I got from them was that I would 
> have to
> figure out whether it was RAM, CPU, system board or PS on my own.  On 
> Tuesday,
> I went back and bought an Intel system board (PS was the cheapest but I
> couldn't see it causing a memory error, the other three were relatively 
> close in
> cost, and I had developed a dislike for the Gibabyte board).  Installed it 
> with
> none of the problems I had had with the Gigabyte.  About two weeks later, 
> I
> left the room and when I came back, discovered that it had rebooted. 
> Tonight it
> did it again.
>
> Any suggestions?  Which should I try next, RAM or CPU?  Other things being
> equal and with no clue, I'd opt for RAM.  If that isn't it, at least the
> additional 1GB can be installed, whereas a spare CPU can't do anything but 
> sit in a
> box.  But I don't really need 2GB of RAM and would rather fix the problem 
> in
> one more step.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
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