Re: OT:PC problem question

["nick100027" <ngunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I can vouch for strange problems due to faulty memory too.   I had a
nightm=
are problem with several faulty components which I wrote about here:

http://bit.ly/7xdPa2=20

In the end =96 it was the faulty memory which was dramatically slowing the
=
PC down and causing random reboots.

Nick


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "richardcfarthing" <lists@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>=20
> I had a similar problem with a Dell laptop a few years ago.
> One lunchtime it crashed, it had almost never crashed before.
> Then, as you describe, it worked variously form 5 mins to 12 hours
before=
BSOD. It was a couple of years old at the time, so FWIW in the end I repla=
ced the motherboard as I could find no logical other fault, having
replaced=
memory, disk etc etc. It was then fine again and has worked for years sinc=
e.  I would strongly vote for hardware failure of some sort, probably bad
s=
oldering (which I once did find and fix in another Dell laptop.)
> HTH!
>=20
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "clax01011971" <UKHA@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> > I bought a Dell desktop machine exactly 1 month ago, it worked
fine for=
the first couple of weeks and then I started experiencing blue screens of =
death (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and MEMORY MANAGEMENT).
> > I tried uninstalling a few things to see if it was a software
issue and=
I seemed to receive less blue screens but I still got some.
> > I've now reverted back to how the machine was when I received it,
I hav=
en't installed anything else and I'm still getting the blue screens (only
I=
RQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL so far).
> > Does the fact that I'm still getting the blue screens after I've
reset =
my machine back to the factory settings mean that there's a good chance
tha=
t it's a hardware issue?
> > Sometimes, I start my machine and don't even touch it and it blue
scree=
ns inside 5 minutes. Sometimes, it has run fine for over 24 hours.
> >=20
> > I'm having fun and games with Dell at the moment as they're
saying that=
it's a software issue and I have to pay for support to fix it but the mini=
mum I would expect from a newly bought machine is that it works with the
so=
ftware that they provide with it.
> >=20
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dave
> >
>




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