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| I have tried EVERYTHING on these two systems for the past 6months. When i first built them 3 years ago they ran pretty good never had any problems with them but now all they do is crash. You'll be on the internet surfing and it will just lock up. It will just lock up in just about anything you work in, PC might stay on for 6hours without any probelms. Yes I even tried reformating the drivies using windows 2000 updating all the updates and BIOS STILL having problems........... |
It's unusual that these probs would be attributed to hdrive issues. I can't think of anything that would simultanoeously affect two systems, esp since you were using W2K. You didn't mention any hware-related changes. Like perhaps you replaced the DRAMs ? Or maybe you replaced the CPUs or the cases ? Regardless, have you tried a RAM diag ? If not, goto
SIMMTester and d/l Doc Memory. It's free and feature-rich.
There isn't much you can do if the CPUs are dead, but I can't remember when a CPU has died or otherwise malfunctioned on me. Erratic behavior is most often assoc'd w/ RAM or some hair-line fracture on the mboard. If it's a mboard prob, you're SOL, as I know of no mboard diags, at least not from the vendors I've bought (Biostar, Gigabyte, ECS, et al.) This is the closest I found:
ZDNET Downloads
HTH. Later....Jet
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