[pchelpers] Re: a question

Billy check your ram out with this below--Just because the ram registers 
that doesn't mean every bit on that ram is good. You need to actually scan 
the ram to see if every piece of that chip is good.  You might have a bad 
spot somewhere on the ram it will register fine until it hits that bad spot. 
Jackie

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

 There's also a program called Memtest86 that's been a trusted source for 
many years,


http://www.memtest.org/http://www.memtest.org/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Billyus Eximius" <billy.e@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:46 AM
Subject: [pchelpers] a question


> Dear All, I have been trying to find an intermittent fault on a recently 
> built PC.
> Every now and again, it drops the power and  it will only restart if the 
> power is switched of and the switched on again and the pc rebooted. 
> However, the pc can run for days without this happening and then it can 
> happen 3 or 4 times in a couple of hours.
> Now normally I would say this is an overheating problem, but when I took 
> the PC to my home and ran it, it dropped the power but when I felt the 
> powerpack and the processor heat sink, they were cool to the touch.
> Can a memory fault do this? I ask because I've long suspected on of the 
> memory sticks may be faulty as I can't think of any thing else that would 
> cause this to happen
>
> Billy
>



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