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Oct. 27th, 2007
My computer ran fine with 1 stick of memory in it. I replaced it with a different stick of memory, and it seemed to boot and run fine still. I put both sticks of memory in and everything seemed okay.
This morning I removed both sticks and put the theoretically bad stick of memory in. It booted. It did that thing where it decided that files and such on drive D (backup music files drive) needed to be checked, and that some stuff was corrupt and needed to be repaired. But then it booted up and seems to be working fine.
I don't know if the whole "files on drive D are messed up" thing demonstrates that this stick of memory is bad, or the fact that it otherwise booted up and is running fine really indicates that the memory is fine and something else is wrong with the computer. I'd like to find out today because it's Saturday and I can go out and buy new memory, or a new barebones system, depending on what the problem is -- but I need to know what the actual problem is first.
Right now I've settled on either the memory or the motherboard as being the problem. It's not the software since I did a complete reinstall, and it's probably not the hard drive, especially since everything runs from drive E but it keeps trying to tell me there are problems with drive D.
But for the moment, it seems to be running okay. Maybe I'll just put the old memory back in and wait and see if anything goes wrong after that.
Except that I can't get the sound to work, actually. I'm not sure why. I installed sound drivers via MSI's Live Update 3, but when I reboot it says it "found new hardware" (multimedia sound device) and wants to install drivers for it... and then it can't find any, and so consequently my sound doesn't work.
Okay... put the supposedly "good" memory in. So far so good. Apparently found a driver for my media device. Sound still fails to work. Reboot. Freeze. Reboot again. "The device was not started" it tells twice me upon booting.
I guess the problem isn't the memory after all. That leaves the motherboard, I think.
Time to get a new system?
This morning I removed both sticks and put the theoretically bad stick of memory in. It booted. It did that thing where it decided that files and such on drive D (backup music files drive) needed to be checked, and that some stuff was corrupt and needed to be repaired. But then it booted up and seems to be working fine.
I don't know if the whole "files on drive D are messed up" thing demonstrates that this stick of memory is bad, or the fact that it otherwise booted up and is running fine really indicates that the memory is fine and something else is wrong with the computer. I'd like to find out today because it's Saturday and I can go out and buy new memory, or a new barebones system, depending on what the problem is -- but I need to know what the actual problem is first.
Right now I've settled on either the memory or the motherboard as being the problem. It's not the software since I did a complete reinstall, and it's probably not the hard drive, especially since everything runs from drive E but it keeps trying to tell me there are problems with drive D.
But for the moment, it seems to be running okay. Maybe I'll just put the old memory back in and wait and see if anything goes wrong after that.
Except that I can't get the sound to work, actually. I'm not sure why. I installed sound drivers via MSI's Live Update 3, but when I reboot it says it "found new hardware" (multimedia sound device) and wants to install drivers for it... and then it can't find any, and so consequently my sound doesn't work.
Okay... put the supposedly "good" memory in. So far so good. Apparently found a driver for my media device. Sound still fails to work. Reboot. Freeze. Reboot again. "The device was not started" it tells twice me upon booting.
I guess the problem isn't the memory after all. That leaves the motherboard, I think.
Time to get a new system?