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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on June 08, 2006, 10:02:07 am

Title: Is my laptop starting to die?
Post by: Kosh on June 08, 2006, 10:02:07 am
A couple of weeks ago the keyboard basically started doing wierd stuff, so I had to disconnect it.

Now I am getting strange application errors at random. They all say something about some memory not being able to be read or something. I have a feeling that some of my ram is starting to go bad.


Tell me your opinion, is my 3 year old computer finally starting to croak?
Title: Re: Is my laptop starting to die?
Post by: Prophet on June 08, 2006, 10:07:41 am
3 years is not that old yet... How have you been handling the thing? Like hitting your sibling/pet with it? Has it been submerged in moisture, buried in dust/flour/sand/concrete...?
Title: Re: Is my laptop starting to die?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on June 08, 2006, 10:13:24 am
I'm sorry KOSH, your...........Laptop is,...........,pants. :ick:



 :Dseiously though
Try the old Defrag, Try reseating the ram, it could be loose after 3 years.
A little spring clean might have it up at top speed again. :yes:
Title: Re: Is my laptop starting to die?
Post by: SadisticSid on June 11, 2006, 07:41:52 am
By application errors do you mean the little dialog in Windows that states something like 'The memory at 0x3057400 could not be "read".'? If so it's almost certainly a software problem; it doesn't mean that the memory is faulty, it's more likely that the application tried to read a memory segment it didn't have access to or deallocated somewhere, or something similar. If your PC goes down with a STOP error and a blue screen, it's very likely a hardware or driver problem. A physical memory read error in my experience causes the whole kernel to die.

First off check for viruses and malware. You could then try to turn off your ring 0 services like anti-virus and anti-spyware software which might be interfering with normal application. If that doesn't solve things, I'd just format and reinstall everything. Hope that helps
Title: Re: Is my laptop starting to die?
Post by: Kosh on June 12, 2006, 01:18:06 am
Thanks. It isn't a stop error and the program that seems to do this the most is Acrobat Reader. I figure it is about time to give it a good reformat, but it won't be until later this week.