Author Topic: wierd problem, Skuzzy anyone (Read 273 times)

whels · « **on:** June 04, 2006, 10:52:04 AM »

Lately, sometimes when i close IE from browsing, i get a error that says.
cant read xxx at adress xxxxxxxxx something at address xxxxxxxxxx.

i click ok and it goes away but every works fine before and after. ive did a fresh format/install lately and it still happens sometimes.

couple times on bootup, when windows comes up. i get a error Report that says a sever hardware failure has occured, but it cant say what hardware
because not enough info was retrieved. it give 4 possibles,
ram, cpu, psu gpu(i think, not sure).

im thinking it might be ram stick going bad, since nothing stops working and its only rarely this all happens.

everything works fine playing or surfing. just these 2 hicups.

System below

Stone · « **Reply #1 on:** June 04, 2006, 11:23:20 AM »

Maybe you should run the memtest86 just to make sure there is no ram problems.

I had one mobo that was broken and did crash IE. It also did other strange things. Like when I copy a file and then run file compare, the files were not identical.

If you have some file that is several hundred MB, copy the file to a directory and then run file compare.
c:\>copy bigfile \temp\bigfile
c:\>FC bigfile \temp\bigfile

It should not find any differences.

Memtest86 can be found on http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Easyscor · « **Reply #2 on:** June 04, 2006, 01:52:46 PM »

I was getting the sever hardware problem report and occasionally hearing a grinding noise coming from my computers over several months. I couldn't find the source of the noise. It turned out to be the video card fans. My computers are often setup in a dusty environment and the fans on both a gForce2 and ATI 9800 Pro locked up. Like you, no message told me if it was HD, PS, Ram, MB, CPU or one of the many fans.

Of course eventually I stumbled on the locked up ATI fan but by then I'd replace two hard drives, two video cards, one being the gForce2 I'd moved to the second computer carring the problem with it, and a power supply.

Not saying that's your problem but those fans are under the cards and you can't easily see them. Use a small mirror when they're operating and whenever you have the case open, check that they turn freely.

FYI I have the reciept for the ATI card somewhere and could have returned it to the factory for warrenty repair but I chose instead to replace the gpu heat sink and fan with an Artic Cooling ATI Silencer. Voids the ATI warrenty of course but worth it to me for a cooler running card and box and I bought it locally putting me back up and running in a couple of hours. I plan on doing the same thing with my gForce2 now that I know I can replace the fans for less then $20 US.

Easyscor · « **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2006, 02:19:36 PM »

btw, write down those addresses the next time they show up.

See if you find them under System Information, Memory, or one of the other catagories. Some times that helpful.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #4 on:** June 05, 2006, 06:34:59 AM »

whels, set the CAS timing to 2.5 for the RAM and see if that clears up the problem (assuming it is set at CAS 2.0).

Easyscor · « **Reply #5 on:** June 05, 2006, 09:26:29 AM »

hehe, I pushed my P4 CSA to 2.0 once. I'll never do that again!:lol