Re: Windows XP Hardware crashes

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From: SchoolTech (schoolcomputertech_at_education.nz)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:32:50 +1300

E. Scrooge wrote:

> "SchoolTech" <schoolcomputertech@education.nz> wrote in message
> news:4204b5e5@clear.net.nz...
>
>>I have 3 machines more or less identical hardware. One crashes a lot
>>more than the other two. When it does Windows puts up a message at
>>startup saying "The system has recovered from a serious error".
>>
>>Is there any way to find out the information on the STOP error that I
>>presume caused the computer to shut down?
>
>
> Could be a number of things.
> My other PC crashed regularly right from the day I got it brand new. It
> took at 4 trips back to store to get them to check it out for a lot longer
> than just 2 minutes after reinstalling XP each time, plus a perfectly good
> new hard drive. The fault turned out to be a faulty stick of RAM. It has 2
> 512MB sticks of RAM in it. Finally when they got round on the last visit to
> try one stick at a time, they found the fault at long last. With the faulty
> stick of RAM replaced it's been faultless ever since.
>
> Only when someone checks it out properly will the cause of the fault
> actually be found.

A run of MEMTEST86 would have easily found that, as it did with one of
our other PCs that turned out to have faulty memory. This machine used
to have Windows 98 running and, as far as I can tell, ran it quite stably.

I turned it on the other morning and a message came up about having
recovered a registry file from a backup. The power supply has been
changed without an apparent improvement so I would be guessing hard
drive or memory as other possibilities.

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