rondom crashes-memory dump doesn't make sense to me

[noorman]

Originally Posted by acgraham

yeah that article was really good man. i think that since the minidumps list different drivers some of the time that the problem may be my ram. but i haven't had a crash in the last 3 days since i removed my soundblaster live and my belkin wireless netwrok card. so confusing. at least if it crashes again i know its not them.

My conclusion now would be that it was 1 of them that caused the BSOD and then it would be the driver of the offending part (maybe even the HW itself) !

[acgraham]

it turned out it actually was the ram though after all. haven't had a crash in weeks now which is brilliant.

[noorman]

Originally Posted by acgraham

it turned out it actually was the ram though after all. haven't had a crash in weeks now which is brilliant.

GOOD for you !

Congrats.

See ... always do a thorough RAM test before ...

[acgraham]

after a hell of a lot of testing over a few months, I figured that it was actually two factors. one was a dodgy stick of RAM, but the other was a virus scanner - AVAST. because they were both causing BSOD's indepently of each other it took a really long time to figure out both of them. everything has been running smoothly now in the BSOD area for quite some time though so ill keep my fingers crossed.

[noorman]

Originally Posted by acgraham

after a hell of a lot of testing over a few months, I figured that it was actually two factors. one was a dodgy stick of RAM, but the other was a virus scanner - AVAST. because they were both causing BSOD's indepently of each other it took a really long time to figure out both of them. everything has been running smoothly now in the BSOD area for quite some time though so ill keep my fingers crossed.

Have you tried the free AVG (version 7) yet ?

I 've installed it with 2 friends and it does just fine.
It autoupdates and all.
email scan included.
running on Win2000pro and WinXPpro. (with those 2 friends)


Get it here:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1



Good luck and hopefully a long run without any more problems !

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by acgraham

after a hell of a lot of testing over a few months, I figured that it was actually two factors. one was a dodgy stick of RAM, but the other was a virus scanner - AVAST. because they were both causing BSOD's indepently of each other it took a really long time to figure out both of them. everything has been running smoothly now in the BSOD area for quite some time though so ill keep my fingers crossed.

Hmmm..........I run AVAST on my machine at home without any problems whatsoever. That's not to say it couldn't be causing a problem, though.

[acgraham]

yeah i highly recomend it to be honest every one else except me. every one else i know that runs it is fine, but for some reason my machine screws up. maybes its because im running dual processors or just some specific hardware fault.