Haig, you once helped me with green flashes and bad frames.. can you help again...

[CMB]

Haig youve been beatiful through all this.
But i might not have to take you up on that just yet.

Yesterday, i put in my new 300 power supply which feels lighter then the one i took out, but this one is much better ventilated and the overall system feels cooler now inside. S

I have a 128mg dimm and 2 64mg dimm and i took out both 64mg dimms leaving just the 128mg stick

I also rejigged my hard drive and am now running soe of udma66 and some of normal 33 when before it was exclusively 66

Now i was copying large avi files so i could format one of the drives.. and i noticed that after a few minutes and copying 1 or 2 files the system would slow down then lock up
without fail... so i thought. instead of heat.. what about memory.. maybe i had a bad dim and it was losing cohesion or something
anyway after i did what ive desribed above

my system which normalll has windows crashing randomly and not launnching icq has captured and playedback files at will and has done this morning also. im going to add the rest of my drives and reformat agian later on... so i dont want to say ive fixed it just yet for fear of jinxing it but it seems im onto something..

Could it be that all those months ago my troubles were added by a rouge dimm which then worked for months and is now playing up again?

are there any utilites i can get to test memory extensively????

[Haig]

Hi Colin,

try this:

- copy your large files from one location of the 33 drive into another location on the 33 drive.

- copy your large files from one location of the 66 drive into another location on the 66 drive.

- copy your large files from one location of the 33 drive into another location on the 66 drive.

- copy your large files from one location of the 66 drive into another location on the 33 drive.

Which one is giving you trouble?

I don't know of any software utilities that will diag memory sticks.

Haig

[CMB]

Hi, I have 1x 128mg dimm
ad 2x 64mg dimm

I have been running find for a few days now with just the 128mg dmm in so the problem lies with the other 2 dimms
after much fiddling and combo trying i have narrowed it down to one of them and have spent the last half hour having Posh spices new video play repeatedly, and perfectly.

I seem to be on the road to recovery now.

Though yesterday in a storm, lightning hit a nearby house and now my modem is fried so i had to buy a new USB one today, guess it could have been a lot worse. I also saw a 60gig drive for £239 which is tempting

Thanks again Haig, and everyone else for all your help!!!

[Haig]

Strange fix but as long as it works, that's great

Haig

[CMB]

well what ever works!!! :OP

Well when i had in the bad dimm
i figure that as it played as it loaded into memory first time roud it would have been ok.
then on second and third, ect plays
when it accessed recent memory it would have got a garbled corrupt frame due to the data losig cohesion in the bad memory??

or something like that..

i think thats also why i used to get random crashes everynow and again. i think playback of mjpeg video just showed up the problem cos it uses more resources then browsing the web

Thanks again everyone
Hiag your a STAR!!!!