RAM problem

Post by **grimdoomer** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:02 pm

Well I have 1 gig of RAM, and everytime I am on my computer for more then 2 hours, It suddenly diminishes. When I right click no menu pops up and sometimes it craches apps. Also if I try to do something in a porgram it will crash, and my computer will keep beeping the windows alert tone untile I close a program. This only started since christmass, and has never happend befor.

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:19 pm

Just to cover the basic, have you done both a virus and spyware scan?

Post by **grimdoomer** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:41 pm

I installed windows again last night to set up a dual boot.

Dark_Destroyer · Post by **Dark_Destroyer** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:49 pm

possible a chip on the ram has died?
if youve got a bad chip it would crash the machine or freeze it due to the data bus not knowing whats going on.

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:19 pm

true, sounds like you might have some wonky ram. if it's one 1GB module, that's pretty bad, but if the 1GB is spread across multiple modules, try booting with different ones pulled out and seeing if you get the same issue again so you can tell if it's something wrong with a specific RAM card. otherwise, maybe there's something physically wrong with one of the sectors in the HDD that the swap file is usually at?

Post by **grimdoomer** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:17 pm

Ill have to take it out and examin it.

Samusaaron3 · Post by **Samusaaron3** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:40 am

Test your ram

http://www.memtest86.com/

Free download. Put the files on a cd, and boot off of it.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:37 am

Vista has a build in mem tester post-loading...press F8 methinks should be next to the SaveMode stuff.

DEEhunter · Post by **DEEhunter** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:42 am

Or your ram is easily over heated. Try getting a atax motherboard if you dont have one already. Those are built for cooling.

Post by **grimdoomer** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:49 pm

DEEhunter wrote:Or your ram is easily over heated. Try getting a atax motherboard if you dont have one already. Those are built for cooling.

That could be a possibility, Ill have to test my RAM, then if everything is as it should be, ill move my computer and see if that changes anything. Thanks