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qaz:
 THATS very interesting about modules  that can mask a bad one, if any more trouble i'll do that, or maybe i will anyway. but to more worrying thing is that i dont know weather to believe hard disk sentinel or seatools for windows [after all they made the damn thing] about my hhd, as u say results will change
all seems ok right now though

Boggin:
I once did a chkdsk /f on one of my laptops which reported a number of bad sectors, but after restoring with a system image for which  I can't remember now, when I ran another chkdsk /f, that came back clean.

As hardware as always trumped software, I was at loss as to how that happened.

I took the word of HDS over the other methods I'd used because the number of bad sectors were spiralling which each HDS test.

That HDD was a 640GB one with quite a lot of free space on it, but because I wasn't experiencing any symptoms of a failing HDD, I didn't know where HDS was finding these bad sectors.

Anyway, I decided to err on the side of caution and replace it.

You can pre-empt a failure by ensuring you have a system image and a system repair disk to boot up with should you need to image a replacement HDD.

You haven't said how you knew you had a bad RAM module.

qaz:
oh sorry...the ram: i had errors or all kinds and a couple relating to ram, as last resort i pulled a strip and that was it. credit came from Kingston yesterday

i need a replacement ddr2 strip but i see that 2 ddr2's can have the board notch in different places. do u know which number relates to the notch in the Ram's board?

friend of mine said yesterday in email which i thought may interest you: "yes results can vary and it can / could be simple things like the temperature of the drive. I know I did have one that would only work well when it was not just warm but hot. For the first 20 / 30 minutes nothing. Bare in mind that your house and hence the ambient temperature of the air around your PC is now 30'C+ when usually it is sub 20'C. So your PC is MUCH hotter than usual."

he designs Bios'S and things so hes a bit out of my league :), he goes on to talk about spinright as being the one he goes to when mixes messages are generated when testing discs....just remembered ive got a copy somewhere

Boggin:
Go for the same make and part number that Speccy gives for the other modules.

I've just noticed an error in one of my replies in that the notch is on the left and not the right.

qaz:
just did a search for "notch" and cant find mention of it.
the same make is an odd one, never seen it before. will try

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