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Shane:
Having a bad memory stick will certainly cause blue screens, and random ones at that. Everything uses memory, so when the memory is bad you can end up with different errors and problems as it depened what thing is hitting that bad section in memory.

TO make sure it is just a bad memory stick use this tool
http://www.memtest86.com/

Use the boot cd option, boot off the cd and run the memory test there without Windows being loaded. If you do have bad memory check in side the computer to see if you have more than one memory stick. If so it is most likely only one of the sticks is bad.

Turn off the power and pull one of the sticks and then test the memory again. If it still fails swap the stick with the one you took out and test again and that is how you can find out which stick is bad. And once the stick is out, while you will have less memory, your system will still run and stop crashing and you can get some new memory added later :wink:

Shane

valleyserviceshvac:
Thanks, I will run that test this afternoon!

Thanks a lo!

bryan

Shane:
Let me know how it goes :-)

Shane

valleyserviceshvac:
So I ran the memtest86 overnight last night.  I have 3 1GB Kingston Memory sticks.  It found 4400 errors in about 16 hours.  So I then removed two of the memory sticks and tested the one in slot 1.  It found 500 errors in 40 minutes or so.  I then removed that one and tested the other two individually.  I ran 1 full pass on each and it found no errors. 

I can post screenshots if that helps.

I am assuming my next option is to purchase a 1 GB memory stick and call it good?  I don't know if it pays to try to fix repairs unless you know what steps I should take.

Is there a website you suggest to purchase that?

Thanks again for all the help!

Bryan

valleyserviceshvac:
also, if I am to replace the module can i upgrade to a 2 GB one?

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