That's true too. About a month ago a co-worker gave me his brothers PC to fix and the first things I did was open it, remove dust and make sure everything was seated properly. He only told me its not working right and every question I asked got a response of "don't know", so I was kinda thinking it might be related to the infected PC's I got from friends that same week. Well, booting it up I couldn't find anything wrong, so I just tweaked it and defragged it. When I returned it the next day I asked him to find out from his brother what the problem was, he called and found out it wasn't booting. I guess something wasn't seated properly. Wow! You do that every year? I wish my lazy butt could find the time to do stuff like that. Lately I've been missing playing UT2k4 because of all the projects going on. Grrr! -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gman Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 11:50 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Active X help Well said. I've also found that many 'random' errors and crashes can be caused by just a little bit of corrosion building up on contacts between hardware components. I pull and reseat every component in my own systems about once a year to avoid it now. While I'm in there, I also pull, clean and re-thermal grease the CPU. The old stuff is usually starting to show its age by then. :) Peace, Gman "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Disastar" <disastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 10:15 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Active X help > Good idea, and also it might not be a bad idea to eliminate any hardware > problems by doing a chkdsk and a memory tester like memtest86+ or > memtest86. > It is fairly rare for a memory problem to cause only the same problem over > and over though. It usually causes strange problems that come and go, but > could be explained if Windows keeps trying to load those DLL's to the same > area of memory. I would lean more towards memory if you also had some > other > strange problems that couldn't be easily explained. --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------