poopy computer

[jcrazyjj]

ok, idk whats wrong w/ this POS!! ill be doing the usual stuff, AIM, FireFox, WMP. and itll just black out, go to the blue screen of death and it says something like "beginning to dump physical memory" then begins counting from 0 to 100, and on 100 it shuts down then restarts. On restart i get an error window then its works fine. it seems pretty random to, like sometimes itll go like 1wk w/o happening other times itll do it like 3/day. idk what to do other than refomat the HD, but i dont wanna lose all my music, pics, vids, and ****. help please!!

[claustrophobia9]

my brother has it happen on his laptop, no1 has any idea what the problem is, my dad works for a computer company and he has no idea either. id consider it unfixable cuz weve wiped his computer and it still does it.

[jcrazyjj]

god i hope that was ur idea of a sick and twisted joke!!!

[colonel_moo]

sounds like your RAM is bad. try to get some kind of ram test. i have a memory test on my computer that i can run at the boot menu, but that came with linux, so i donno what you can do for windows. be forwarned that a good memory test will take a couple days to complete, so expect to have the computer tied up for a while.

try to get something that you can use strait from the boot menu, because its no good if you need to actually use the memory to run the OS, while trying to test it.

[claustrophobia9]

Originally Posted by jcrazyjj

god i hope that was ur idea of a sick and twisted joke!!!

no. it really does that, and we really have no idea. he just deals with it. sorta sucks when he has to write a paper tho... and i know how to test ram if you have windows xp and an hp computer. start>all programs>hp tools>pc doctor

[kif]

Originally Posted by colonel_moo

sounds like your RAM is bad. try to get some kind of ram test. i have a memory test on my computer that i can run at the boot menu, but that came with linux, so i donno what you can do for windows. be forwarned that a good memory test will take a couple days to complete, so expect to have the computer tied up for a while.

try to get something that you can use strait from the boot menu, because its no good if you need to actually use the memory to run the OS, while trying to test it.

I use a utility called MemTest86.

[claustrophobia9]

Originally Posted by colonel_moo

be forwarned that a good memory test will take a couple days to complete, so expect to have the computer tied up for a while.

if it shuts down randomly that may not be an option...

[colonel_moo]

no claus, the memtest shouldnt be running in windows, it boots into it.

kif, i think memtest86 is what im using too.

[claustrophobia9]

Originally Posted by colonel_moo

no claus, the memtest shouldnt be running in windows, it boots into it.

kif, i think memtest86 is what im using too.

if its the same thing my brother has itll do it regardless.

[colonel_moo]

well if it does still do it, you could always get a cheap stick of ram, like 64 megs and see if it still crashes.