*sigh*

[kierthos]

Okay, something is still wrong with my computer.

It's not Blue-screening any more. Nope. Just crashing outright. Just shuts down.

I can restart it in safe mode, and then restart in normal mode from there and it works fine for hours, or even a day or more, but it does crash again... that's pretty much guaranteed.

I guess I have to run memtest again, see if it is the RAM. It's possible that the test I ran earlier only checked the first stick of RAM.

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[thedeadcat]

Yeah, all RAM spots being filled means it'd be a shuffle test, so grok that. Pain in the ass. Though really, it's still preferable that it's your RAM and not your board. One's a pop-out/in install, the other is a full rebuild...

You still have 512 in your machine? Damn. o_0 I just tossed all our old 512 sticks into the e-recycle bin. (Granted, most of 'em were laptop sticks...)

[kierthos]

The computer is a few years old. And it came with 512s.

Dell, the cheap fucks that they can be, decided "Hey, this guy ordered 2 GBs of RAM on his computer. Instead of being nice, and giving him two 1 Gb sticks, let's give him one 1 GB, and 2 512s!"

And based on some further testing, it is one of the RAM sticks. One of the 1 GB ones.