[thelist] Desparate, Please Help: Memory Problem [OT]

[Peter Loron]

You need to go through a process of elimination. If you reseat
everything in the computer and the problem goes away, then something was
loose. If you next swap out the ram and the problem goes away, then you
had some bad ram. If you've got a good backup of your system, you can
try an OS and app reinstall to see if something got fubar-ed there.

Unfortunately there is no magic detector that can nail down problems
exactly...I had a Mac one time that I wound up swapping everything out
including the OS and finally figured it out to be a motherboard issue.
Luckily it was covered under warranty.

-Pete

On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 10:37  PM, Chris Johnston wrote:

> Great, thanks, but is there anyway I can be sure that it is my ram and
> not some other component like the motherboard or the cpu?
>
> Hugh Blair wrote:
>
>>
>> I think you've answered your own question. You have 1 or more memory
>> strips gone bad. If your computer has more than 1 memory strip, you
>> might
>> try buying 1 and swapping it with one of those in the computer. If that
>> doesn't solve the problem, swap the new one with the other. If you only
>> have 1 strip, replace it. If swapping one at a time doesn't solve it,
>> buy another and put 2 new ones in.
>>
>> -Hugh
>>
>>
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