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| SirPoonga:
How long has it been since a fresh install? |
| Sasquatch!:
--- Quote from: Jakobud on March 17, 2003, 09:12:57 pm ---Might be bad ram. I dunno. Anyway to test ram without swapping it out for other ram? --- End quote --- Yep! http://www.memtest86.com/ |
| cdbrown:
memtest is very helpful and easy although it can report errors even if the sticks are good. Sometimes motherboards with onboard sound and using the athlon cpu can generate errors (that's what I've have heard on other boards). I have been running memtest on mine and get errors every now and again but I can't confirm whether it is actually the stick or something else. If you do find errors, see if you can put them in another pc and retest to see if they can be duplicated. SirP has a good point, OS's tend to destroy themselves over a period of time and need to be deleted/formatted and reinstalled. Maybe clearing out all temp files, defrag the drive, just guessing now. Good luck. |
| Rasher2k:
Win2k likes to chew before it swallows (the Whore). HDD Fragmented? Got the latest Service Patch (3)? Maybe it's playing with its' swap files? Who knows... 2K likes to go through all your stuff, like when you insert a cd it takes years to recognize it. I have P4-2ghz with a gig of ram yet still manage to kill it on a regular occasion (then again, I play with a lot of dangerous stuff, but don't we all ;)). But what can you do. Tweak? Patch? Reinstall... |
| Jakobud:
Only been a couple months since I installed 2k on it. I never install anything on this machine since it's in my cabinet. I installed the emulators I wanted and pretty much left the OS alone. I will try that memtest and see what it says. |
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