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| Thread ID: 32695 | 2003-04-25 10:33:00 | Computer experiencing Registry problems very often - esp. Attn: Roofus | somebody (208) | Press F1 |
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| 138892 | 2003-04-26 10:30:00 | scandisk may help test one of the components.... remember to tick thorough or surface scan depending on which defrag version... which will test the disk surface [and take substantially longer than a normal scan]. Might be a case of leaving going for hours, and for much larger drives upto a day or so. | Captive (3159) | ||
| 138893 | 2003-04-27 04:08:00 | "The registry is held at the start of a hard drive"????? The registry files are files, which are wherever on the disk the OS puts them . Either the disk system can read the files, in which case the registry should be OK, or else it can't read the files, in which case it will give a fatal error . A low battery for the CMOS memory will give errors in the BIOS department . It has no effect on the windows registry . My vote is for bad main memory . The report of no L2 cache shows that there is no L2 cache on the CPU package . Further down the report, 256k L2 external cache is shown . If that wasn't there (or was turned off) you would have noticed a major speed problem . ;-) (In the 80s, some fake cache chips were on the market . The difference was noticable . That episode cost some notherboard importers quite a lot of money) . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 138894 | 2003-04-27 05:27:00 | Yeah I would say RAM - you should get a RAM benchmarking/analysis program to give it a major load and see if it crashes or not. Windows seems to report the right amount of memory but if the problem is off and on like you say the benchmarking program should crash or report any problems when the memory is used to it's capacity. |
HadO (796) | ||
| 138895 | 2003-04-27 05:39:00 | What software would you recommend? | somebody (208) | ||
| 138896 | 2003-04-27 08:32:00 | > What software would you recommend? For testing your RAM? Try MemTest. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 138897 | 2003-04-27 09:56:00 | Looks as though i "could" be wrong in regards to the placement of the registry on the hard-disk, i was thinking of the boot sector data. I would however like to know how people think a ram problem could be causing a corrupted resgistry. I have never come across an occurance caused by the two together. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 138898 | 2003-04-27 10:25:00 | Thanks Susan | somebody (208) | ||
| 138899 | 2003-04-27 10:27:00 | The theory was (from a computer technician I spoke to), that when registry data is transferred from the RAM back to the hard drive, it gets damaged, therefore causing the problems. | somebody (208) | ||
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