On 12/01/2014 23:03, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:00:16 -0000, SteveW
wrote:

On 12/01/2014 22:49, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:06:34 -0000, SteveW
wrote:

On 12/01/2014 11:52, John Williamson wrote:
On 11/01/2014 19:32, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:08:13 -0000, tony sayer
wrote:



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 have, on three different machines.

On the first, Win NT ran, crashing once or twice a day, but otherwise
okay. I needed USB support for something and tried to install Win ME,
which would not even get past the installer (Win 98 would, but crashed
every half hour or so). A memory test proved one stick of memory
faulty.
Replacing it cured the problem.

Years later, on the other two machines, both running the same
motherboards, same processors and same memory but different version of
Windows (Vista and 7) , first one stick and then the other of each
failed - again the machines became crash prone, a memory check showed
the fault and removing the faulty stick cured the problem until the
other stick went faulty a few months later. Replacing the memory has
kept both machines running (one is now running Windows 8 and I am using
the other to try out Zentyal).

I've never known memory to BECOME faulty, it's usually faulty on
purchase.

Well I usually test it on purchase and in each case it's been running
between 6 months and 2-1/2 years before failing.

What make of memory was it? I've found Corsair Vengeance memory to be
reliable.

The first I can't remember, the later two sets (4 sticks) were matched
pairs from Crucial. I can't remember the particulars, but they were
metal encased ones at the pricier end of their range at the time. I've
still got them somewhere as I had to buy replacments immediately and
never got around to sending the originals back.

SteveW