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Computer runs like crap, fix one thing leads to another.

Jul 29, 2004 1:47AM PDT

Hey all, here is my computer Spec's.

AMD ATHLON XP 2100+ 266FSB SOCKET A RETAIL BOX
SOLTEK 75FRN2-L NFORCE2 SOCKETA DUAL DDR AGP8X 5PCI ATA133 SOUND LAN
SPECTEK PC2700 256MB DDR 333MHZ 184PIN OEM
40 gig HD
SOLTEK GEFORCE4 MX440SE AGP 128BIT 64MB SDR
NCI SL-9030KL 17IN ATX 10 DRIVE BAYS 300W P4 READY

now anything describe above is all I know, my computer was freezing and rebooting whenever on odd occasions, I ran memcheck and figured out it was bad ram cause of all the errors, I received a new Ram, same Manufacter, when I run memcheck it passes every test so I assume I didn't get bad ram again.

however here is the odd part, my computer will work fine up until it freezes,I can't do anything other then hard reboot it, when it goes through the POST, it will Freeze on the Loading screen for Windows and eventually pop up a BSOD,it will freeze for like 10 minutes. I will reboot numerous times and it will stick to Loading Windows XP. Now when I go on Safe Mode my Mouse doesn't work, the only way I can get back to WInXP is to use Last Known Good option, also I will need to get my USB mouse from my own computer and pop it in to the new one to get my PS/2 Mouse to start working, thats pretty strange to me.

I really don't know why my computer is acting up like this but any suggestion would be nice.

Sam

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Re: Computer runs like crap, fix one thing leads to another.
Jul 29, 2004 1:57AM PDT
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Jul 30, 2004 1:45AM PDT

If the memory was bad when the operating system was loaded, then perhaps something got garbaged in the load giving you the other problems. It may be all you need is to reload XP with the new stable memory.
Norm