Re: Many Crashes is normal?

From: John (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:30:50 -0800

Hemlock,

Thank you for your advice. I replaced the RAM and It
hasn't crashed in 5 days!!!!!! I shouldn't be too loud I
don't want to be unlucky. BUT the NEW RAM looks like it
solved my problem. Thank you again for responding to my
help. John
>-----Original Message-----
>No it is not normal.
>You have either hardware or software problems.
>
>I have had 2 crashes in 4 years with xp.
>Both were related to the power company shutting off the
>power. No power no pc.
>
>Not sure this will help.
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
8&q=ram+test
>
>pick any crash messages and put them into a google
search.
>
>Log what you are doing at the point of crash,
>try to isolate a program or hardware.
>
>Try coming up in 'safe mode' and running simple tasks.
>See if the crashes still occur.
>
>besides memory ram tests test your disks.
>
>try this site
>http://www.pcpitstop.com/
>
>lets hear your results.
>
>Hemlock
>
>
>
>On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:05:04 -0800, "John"
><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>My XP pro is still crashing. It crashed 11 times so far
>>in March. It crashed 12 times at least in Feb.
Sometimes
>>the error message says PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, other times
>>NTFS.SYS PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON-PAGE_AREA, other times other
>>things.
>>
>>Is this normal for XP Pro to crashed so often?
>>My PC is 3 months old, has 512RAM, 2.4G pentium 4.
Ihave
>>read many many of the knowledge base articles and have
>>done what they say, when I understand it. Sometimes it
>>refers to bad Ram other to corrupt drivers. My drivers
>>are uptodate. Not sure how to test RAM.
>>
>>I am ready to throw out this XP and start somehow again.
>>
>>Should it crash so often?
>>
>>Thanks for listening and your help.
>>
>>John
>
>.
>

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