On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:52:03 -0000, John Williamson wrote:

On 11/01/2014 19:32, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:08:13 -0000, tony sayer wrote:


No great fan of m$ but we still have a couple of olde WIN2K machines one
has been up for 8500 odd hrs and as to the main machine WIN 7 and I
really can't fault it at all!...

Plus the odd couple of XP machines no problems there either..

M$ gets blamed for blue screens. 99% of them are due to faulty memory.
Always run 3 passes of memtest on a new machine.

Most BSODs that I've had have turned out to be faulty hardware drivers,
mostly video card ones, and the others to badly written programmes or HD
corruption. I've never yet had one that could be traced to faulty memory.

I've found brand new cheap memory to be faulty 10% of the time. And decent memory to be faulty 3% of the time.

I always install the latest drivers and the only blue screen I ever saw that wasn't to do with faulty memory was a disk controller fault, and that was a hardware fault, not the driver.

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