Guest Raymond Posted March 8, 2010 Posted March 8, 2010 I had a computer freezing problem and was told it was the memory chip. Turns out it wasn't actually the chip but somewhere in the slot it sits in. After inserting a new chip the computer might run for a day or two before freezing. As I have a laptop there doesn't seem to be much I can do beyond avoiding that slot (which reduces me to the only other slot and 512MB max). I bought a MemTest-86 bootable CD-Rom memory diagnostic program from BradyTech Inc; haven't tried to boot up with it yet though (with a chip in the slot that has the bad spot in it somewhere) partly because I would probably have to run the thing days and then all I would get is conformation of what I already know. I wish there was a way to ignore/bypass whatever is bad in the slot (like can be done on hard drives) but I don't think that is possible. Anyone know differently?? So I am posting this mostly just in case someone else's problem is the same, yet the possibility of a bad slot rather than the chip in it never occured to them. I suppose it could be repaired in a PC but I am told it can not be done in a notebook. -- Thank you, Raymond "NitricNoobie" wrote: > ok, first i had a stick of ram that was 512 it wasnt the one meant for it, my manufacturer gave me this stick because the memory that came with the computer was bad...recently i have switched out that stick with a new one, this memory IS compatible with my proccessor and my mother board but it for some reason will constantly lock up with me. I have done the whole trial and error thing to see if it is the memory stick...i have currently been through 4 sticks now and they all give me the same result... a blue screen with the error messages 0x0000008E and 0xc0000005 and 0xBFA3F4BB and 0xEBB52A50 and 0x00000000 there are other messages also NAVENG.Sys - address EBB52A50 base at EBB52A50 Datestamp 00000000 and another saysNv4_disp.dll - address BFA3F4BB base at BF9B7000 datestamp 3f725d4c i have resarched all of these in google; most give me memory related results but the last 4 error messages that i mentioned give me no results, i hope that i copied them right...im sure that it isnt the memory now because 4 consecutive memory sticks couldnt all be bad... thanks in advance for any and all of your help. > > i also reinstalled Windows Xp onto my system and yet it still seemed to freeze on me...... > > Quote
Guest DL Posted March 8, 2010 Posted March 8, 2010 Memtest is free; http://www.memtest.org Its cheaper to change a motherboard rather than attempting to repair it "Raymond" <Raymond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:65D6860A-7FB9-4397-BE22-8096A409A0B7@microsoft.com... >I had a computer freezing problem and was told it was the memory chip. >Turns > out it wasn't actually the chip but somewhere in the slot it sits in. > After > inserting a new chip the computer might run for a day or two before > freezing. > As I have a laptop there doesn't seem to be much I can do beyond avoiding > that slot (which reduces me to the only other slot and 512MB max). I > bought a > MemTest-86 bootable CD-Rom memory diagnostic program from BradyTech Inc; > haven't tried to boot up with it yet though (with a chip in the slot that > has > the bad spot in it somewhere) partly because I would probably have to run > the > thing days and then all I would get is conformation of what I already > know. I > wish there was a way to ignore/bypass whatever is bad in the slot (like > can > be done on hard drives) but I don't think that is possible. Anyone know > differently?? So I am posting this mostly just in case someone else's > problem > is the same, yet the possibility of a bad slot rather than the chip in it > never occured to them. I suppose it could be repaired in a PC but I am > told > it can not be done in a notebook. > -- > Thank you, Raymond > > > "NitricNoobie" wrote: > >> ok, first i had a stick of ram that was 512 it wasnt the one meant for >> it, my manufacturer gave me this stick because the memory that came with >> the computer was bad...recently i have switched out that stick with a new >> one, this memory IS compatible with my proccessor and my mother board but >> it for some reason will constantly lock up with me. I have done the whole >> trial and error thing to see if it is the memory stick...i have currently >> been through 4 sticks now and they all give me the same result... a blue >> screen with the error messages 0x0000008E and 0xc0000005 and 0xBFA3F4BB >> and 0xEBB52A50 and 0x00000000 there are other messages also NAVENG.Sys - >> address EBB52A50 base at EBB52A50 Datestamp 00000000 and another >> saysNv4_disp.dll - address BFA3F4BB base at BF9B7000 datestamp 3f725d4c i >> have resarched all of these in google; most give me memory related >> results but the last 4 error messages that i mentioned give me no >> results, i hope that i copied them right...im sure that it isnt > the memory now because 4 consecutive memory sticks couldnt all be bad... > thanks in advance for any and all of your help. >> >> i also reinstalled Windows Xp onto my system and yet it still seemed to >> freeze on me...... >> >> Quote
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