Blue Screen Crash Question

[postjack]

So my computer has started doing this thing where every time I turn it on, after about 5 minutes, give or take a minute, regardless of what I'm doing on the computer, I get a blue screen of death crash and the computer resets. The weird thing is, once it resets and starts up again, its 100% fine, no more crashes. This only occurs when I start my computer from an off state.

When I start back up it always gives me the "windows has recovered from a serious error" box. The reason is something to do with bad memory. Indeed I did add some new RAM several weeks back, but I did not start experiencing this until recently. Nevertheless, I've done lots of trouble shooting involving moving the ram around to different slots, and even swapping it out with a newer stick of RAM to no avail.

Any thoughts?

Also should I buy an iMac?

[grawk]

try running it without the memory

and yes

[deepak]

Memtest86 on da RAMs.

[Pars]

Also should I buy an iMac?

You already know the answer to that... as Grawk reminded you.

[Dusty Chalk]

Sounds like a hardware issue (I.E. take the new memory out). Also, sometimes there's a way to configure the memory on some machines to ignore the bad memories. (I know my K2000 does this.) You might want to see if your machine does something like that.

[aardvark baguette]

Maybe you overheated the ram. I did that to some $400 Corsair Dominator sticks

[JBLoudG20]

Also should I buy an iMac?

[premacfanboymode]Nah, Linux will serve you jsut fine[/premacfanboymode]

if(day>=wednesdayjuly30)

{

printf("Yes buy an iMac");

}

[aardvark baguette]

[premacfanboymode]Nah, Linux will serve you jsut fine[/premacfanboymode]

if(day>=wednesdayjuly30)

{

printf("Yes buy an iMac");

}

else

{

Do it anyway

}

Finish yer statementz

[postjack]

You already know the answer to that... as Grawk reminded you.

Yeah, I certainly know where to go fishing for the answer I want.

Well I took the new memory out and I'm running fine. I don't think I'm going to worry about putting anything else back in since I only got it for a game I can't seem to get into anyway.

[deepak]

Well I took the new memory out and I'm running fine. I don't think I'm going to worry about putting anything else back in since I only got it for a game I can't seem to get into anyway.

A tentacle rape hentai 3d sex game?

[tkam]

Well I took the new memory out and I'm running fine.

Sounds right, bad memory is one of the more common causes of crashes. Most memory comes with a lifetime warranty these days so you should try to RMA it with the manufacturer.

[postjack]

A tentacle rape hentai 3d sex game?

Nah, an MMO. I just had go finally admit to myself that I don't have time to play one of these effectively.

Sounds right, bad memory is one of the more common causes of crashes. Most memory comes with a lifetime warranty these days so you should try to RMA it with the manufacturer.

Cool, I'll look into this.