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Originally Posted by markm75
Thanks much for this detailed info.. I did infact download a newer version of everest, the problem has gone away.. so i dont think its OS related, at least not that one..
however, last night i was running memtest (windows version).. i opened up about 11 windows, set each to 900MB, so that all but 200MB of memory was being used..
Came down in the middle of the night to find a bluescreen.. i think it was irq less or equal , maybe a 0A and error on usbstor.sys or similar...
I guess its memory related.. though the system passed a 6 run linpack and 2 passes on memtest x86 bootcd... or maybe back when i was tweaking the hardware and had a bluescreen then, it corrupted something, though i dont recall any checkdisk errors..
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Hi Mark. .
You're welcome.
Just curious - where did you open 11 windows @ 900mb each? In memtest or in Windows itself? It's been a long time since I myself ran memtest, so I am not all that familiar with it these days.
If 9900mb opened in Windows you would literally start eating virtual memory b/c of RAM allocated to kernel mode and possibly video.
My Vista x64 4GB RAM system went nuts recently - pix on right side shows an incredible 8,476 processes running using all available physical RAM, Kernel memory at 1599mb (1371mb paged pool) and the page file itself growing to over 15GB - yet the system stayed up. The Intel P7350 core2 duo procs were all over sometimes pinned at 100%. Whatever was going on, werfault (WERCON - Windows Error Reporting) launched over 4,000 apps in 17 minutes to send info to Microsoft.
It ended up generating over 100 full kernel dumps - totaling more than 125GB. As much as I enjoy going through kernel dumps to try and figure things out, I called it a day and re-installed Vista. That solved it for me.
I just wish the same would work for you. I know of the frustration you must be going through with all of this. Something is found pointing to a probable cause, then that p/c points elsewhere - and then turns again 180° - leading to yet another area.
Best Wishes. . .
JC
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