Windows XP hangs

I've downloaded the Ram test tool lets just hope I don't have to use it.

I still say make your rescue disks.. though I never used recovery console off the cd to recover anything yet.

The nice thing is that there are still very few unrecoverable OS problems.. even for M$, you can 9/10 get things back to some state of normalcy without resorting to a reinstall.


Cheers,

I agree with Sahirh on the boot disks and rescue disks.

I takes almost no time to create them and disks cost relatively nothing. Saying that they are rubbish is like say car insurance is rubbish - until you absolutely need them and find you don't have them.

Hey Manip,

I tried your Memory (Ram) test program and it worked great.

I have been building a new machine and had problems with it periodically hanging and couldn't figure out why, so I downloaded the program you mentioned and my memory failed 2 of the tests. Went and got some new memory and it is working fine now.

Going to definately keep this in my arsenal.

Manip, perhaps you could do a review of the Ram tester in the cool software forum ?

Cheers,

Hey guys,

thanks for your replies. I've tried the following RAM testers:

- Windows Memory Diagnostic:
oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

- Memtest86
www.memtest86.com

- DocMemory
www.simmtester.com

None of them showed any errors when I used them. However both memory modules with the ones from another computer and it worked perfectly with Windows XP. After that I ran the burn-in tester (great tool!) Chris mentioned and my machine passed all tests.

So the problem is sorted ?


Cheers,