Hi There
I'm hoping someone can help me with a major problem i'm having. A few weeks back I got a direct lightning strike on my power cables that ended up frying my ethernet, sound and graphics cards all of which I've managed to replace via ebay at reasonable prices.
As far as I could tell the motherboard was ok however running memtest at bootup showed there was damage to my ram. The problem with me running memtest, though, is that i have no idea what the stats mean.
The second, more serious problem is that the computer will not run long enough for me get much done. It reboots itself every once and while in an almost random manner - no blue screen, just a reboot. Even writing to a text file, as I'm doing right now, may cause it to give up the ghost, let alone running a more complex program.
I was hoping someone out there might examine my dump files and give me a hand trying to track down where the problem is. Most obviously it seems to be a RAM issue but others have told me they think its the whole motherboard.
Any assistance would be keenly appreciated.
Many thanks
Mbopo
System: Pentium 4/1.6 GHz, I GB Ram, Windows XP Pro SP2,
ASUS Motherboard P4S333, Radeon 9200 Pro Graphics card,
E-MU 1212m soundcard
I'm hoping someone can help me with a major problem i'm having. A few weeks back I got a direct lightning strike on my power cables that ended up frying my ethernet, sound and graphics cards all of which I've managed to replace via ebay at reasonable prices.
As far as I could tell the motherboard was ok however running memtest at bootup showed there was damage to my ram. The problem with me running memtest, though, is that i have no idea what the stats mean.
The second, more serious problem is that the computer will not run long enough for me get much done. It reboots itself every once and while in an almost random manner - no blue screen, just a reboot. Even writing to a text file, as I'm doing right now, may cause it to give up the ghost, let alone running a more complex program.
I was hoping someone out there might examine my dump files and give me a hand trying to track down where the problem is. Most obviously it seems to be a RAM issue but others have told me they think its the whole motherboard.
Any assistance would be keenly appreciated.
Many thanks
Mbopo
System: Pentium 4/1.6 GHz, I GB Ram, Windows XP Pro SP2,
ASUS Motherboard P4S333, Radeon 9200 Pro Graphics card,
E-MU 1212m soundcard
, if you have defective ram then it won't work and you'll get BSOD's/reboots etc.
