[thelist] Debugging a New PC

[William Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank" <framar at interlog.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:24 PM
Subject: [thelist] Debugging a New PC


>
> So I've just gotten a new PC, AMD Duron 700Mhz chip,  windows me, 128
> ram, 30 gigs drive, partitioned into C, and D. I'm having some
> problems I'm hoping someone can help me figure out.
>
> Symptome 1: Occasionally my machine shows that I only have 80 megs,
> [...]

sounds like bad RAM

> Symptome 2: The machine will work normally, them suddenly grind to a
> halt. It's not frozen, but when I move the mouse, the cursor will
> [...]

sounds like bad RAM

> Symptome 3: CPU usage. For startup programs, I have the following.
> [...]
> 95-98%. (This sucker is working HARD, and there's nothing going on...)

sounds like bad RAM (you're loading stuff that would be fine in 128MB RAM,
but with some missing, winME is swapping to hell)

take it back to where you got it and get the RAM replaced.  Troubleshoot
again from there ...

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