Monday, 24 Mar

RIP KVR266X64C25/512:

My PC was flipping out like a squirrel on crack these past couple of days. It seemed to think it was born to shutdown, reboot, and entertain me with blue screens of death (everybody’s favorite) in between. For fear of kicking its sorry ass, I avoided it the whole weekend.

After a careful process of elimination this afternoon, I determined that it was one of the sticks of RAM that was bugging out. Unfortunately it was the 512mb stick that had to be yanked, and now I’m down to a measly 256mb. I will just make do for a while though — at least until I’m back in North America, and can RMA this puppy.

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Exactly how did you figure out it was the RAM stick causing the trouble?

Konstantinos | March 26, 2003 05:24 AM
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I dual-boot with winXP and win2kpro, and the problems persisted in either OS — so from that I knew it had to be hardware. So I plugged in a different hard disk, and setup XP on that, but the same issue occurred right at the end of the install. It had to be something other than the HDD, meaning either the RAM, vid card, or motherboard.

Since the RAM is the easiest to swap out, I tried that first and ‘hey bingo’ without that stick things ran fine, put the stick back in, and problems surface again. So basically just trial and error.

Ryan | March 26, 2003 10:58 AM
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Heh. Tough way to go. But then again, I assume it’s the only one.

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