jdk3034 Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Hi, I have been having problems with my computer and I tested my RAM using the Windows Diagnostic Tool from Microsoft's website, you know the one that you put on a floppy and boot the computer with it, and well it fails one of the tests called Stride6. So I think the RAM is bad since it failed one of the tests. I tried the rest on DDR400 with 2 3 3 7 timings and DDR333 2.5 3 3 6 timings and it fails either way. I have an MSI K7N2 motherboard, Athlon XP 2600 333FSB cpu, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, and a Lite-ON 52X cd burner and a Piooneer 16X DVD-ROM. Please help me ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladimir Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 jdk, I suspected a memory problem on my machine, so I downloaded and used the Windows Memory Diagnostic program. Every test failed using this program, even on known good memory. My suggestion would be to download Memtest-86 v3.2 and use that instead. Basically, unzip the file you download, format a bootable floppy, and run the install.bat program. You'll be able to boot right into the program just like the Windows Diagnostic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdk3034 Posted December 4, 2004 Author Share Posted December 4, 2004 yeah I tested using that one and all passed so I guess the RAM is good. But I have always had IRQ sharing problems with my computer. Both my video card and sound card share the same IRQ 10. So I took my sound card out since I have an on-board one that I can just use just have to enable it and now the sound card and video card are on different IRQs. My problem is a couple of days ago I put windows xp pro into hibernate mode, and when I turned the computer back on a couple hours later it didn't boot, it just sat there with the progess bar full and did nothing. So I turned it off and when I turned it back on Windows would not boot in any mode. It wouldn't even display the Windows XP logo black screen. So I tried to boot my windows xp cd to reformat and install windows and it booted but after it loaded all the drivers and what not and it says Setup is starting Windows or whatever it just sits there, it doesn't even attempt to read the cd. So I put my hard drive in my cousin's computer and formatted and installed windows with no problems. So I don't think it is the hard drive. But then it wouldn't boot in my computer but it would boot in his. I also tried a different cd-rom in my computer and it still wouldn't load the windows setup. I tried different IDE ables too. So far I have ruled out the memory, hard drive, ide cables, and cd-rom. I have tried numbers of different bios settings and it still won't launch the setup. I also tried a differetn copy of windows from my cousin and that didn't work either, so it isn't my actual windows CD. I don't know what the hell the problem is and I'm getting so pissed it isn't funny. Do you think it could be the video card, motherboard, or CPU? How could I test those three? I don't know how to test any of those, especially with no operating system installed. Please help me out I'm so frustrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 Only way would be to swap with parts in a known good system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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