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[Diablos]

So I should yank out one stick of memory, then test the one remaining....then do another test with the opposite stick?

EDIT: One time I got an area that said something like PAGE FAULT IN UNPAGED AREA. Anybody know what that means?

Right. One at a time. And you'll want to be testing this at your memory's rated speed, of course.

 

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Okay, so I'm just now getting around to doing something about this. I seem to have solved the problem but now there's a host of new questions:

I lowered the speed of the RAM in the BIOS menu, but it looks like there is no way to do this without lowering the clock speed of the CPU as well (WTF?!). The hit I take is really big too...from 2.54 Ghz to 1.9 Ghz. Am I stuck with this situation until I replace the RAM? Is there some menu option I might be missing?

So far I'm able to play even very stress-filled games without having the system reboot itself. Does this mean that the RAM was definitely the problem? Or could it still be the CPU or PSU (and lowering the clock on everything was what did it)? I'm guessing that I can rule out software issues at this point.

I haven't run the memory test yet since I can't get the system to boot from a CD (even with CD boot enabled) and don't have any floppies around....

 

[Firest0rm]

Okay, so I'm just now getting around to doing something about this. I seem to have solved the problem but now there's a host of new questions:

I lowered the speed of the RAM in the BIOS menu, but it looks like there is no way to do this without lowering the clock speed of the CPU as well (WTF?!). The hit I take is really big too...from 2.54 Ghz to 1.9 Ghz. Am I stuck with this situation until I replace the RAM? Is there some menu option I might be missing?

So far I'm able to play even very stress-filled games without having the system reboot itself. Does this mean that the RAM was definitely the problem? Or could it still be the CPU or PSU (and lowering the clock on everything was what did it)? I'm guessing that I can rule out software issues at this point.

I haven't run the memory test yet since I can't get the system to boot from a CD (even with CD boot enabled) and don't have any floppies around....

I had the same message that you got in the situation i described earlier. However I was told by a technician that it was either a virus in my motherboard memory or its dying, nothing witht he RAM though. But it seems as though yours is possibly with the RAM. But, maybe it still has to do with the motherboard and its a result of lowering the speed of your computer intotal thats actually fixing it rather than an issue with the RAM? I'm not a techy guy but I'm just trying to help you out since I had the same issue. You might have just get a new motherboard, hopefully not though.