Re: random shutdown/crash

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In news:OVZeIbbeFHA.2500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Kerry Brown <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Download a bootable CD image and burn it or download a floppy disk
> image. Boot from the CD or floppy and it will run automatically. Let
> it run for several hours or until errors show up. If no errors show
> up after several hours that is not the problem.
>
> Kerry

On the off-chance that it's not a bad stick of RAM (and the symptoms would
suggest that as being where I'd start to troubleshoot as well so I'm in
complete agreement with Kerry) you may find this site, though a bit vague,
of use to you. At some parts the article it is pretty vague (diagnosing stop
errors is more like voodoo than technical at times) and at others rather
technical so I tend to give it out as a generic guideline.

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

There is a great deal of information on the site and there's countless links
from it. It is likely that it will seem a bit overwhelming at first but
going down through it carefully (with a hot mug of coffee most likely)
should get you an answer eventually. One thing to try, having read your
other answers, might also be to try a different driver for your video card.
Head to the nvidia site (I think it's just plain nvidia.com) and grab the
latest driver package for your card. It's usually a rather large download
with drivers for a number of different cards or versions but it's better to
get the drivers from their site (they're usually updated more frequently)
than to get them from the Microsoft site.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes


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