Anyone know anything about computers?

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I used to use Norton Utilities 2001, and there was a pretty killer utility in there somewhere that tested every hardware component in your system. I ran the entire test once, found out I had one bad stick of RAM, and replaced it. Voila, my mysterious instant reboot problem disappeared. I was so happy about this that I went out and bought Norton Utilities 2002 and installed it, and for some godawful reason, they romoved this entire hardware test app. I could never get it back to where it was (the NU 2001 disc had been "borrowed" from a friend who has now relocated to a different country...)
Lesson learned--never upgrade software if you're totally happy with it. I only wish they would sell me the old version, so I could replace the newer dumber version they make now.
 
I know Norton Uutilities had a routine that scanned memory for viruses, but I didn't know it had a RAM tester?
 
Michael Jones said:
I know Norton Uutilities had a routine that scanned memory for viruses, but I didn't know it had a RAM tester?
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I have NU 2001 and the diagnostics are great. They`ll fix all kinds of windows problems, let you know what they are, and what they did to fix them. There`s also disk diagnostics. physical system diagnostics. My trouble is, I upgraded to XP and it don`t work with the new OS.
 
Yeah, 2001 had physical diagnostics... it would test everything, your video card, every RAM address, interrupts, anything you can think of. it was glorious. 2002 doesn't have that capability.
 
What OS are you running?

I hope your not running Windows ME, because if your are, that is the problem.
 
www.memtest86.com

A litte utility for testing memory.

Requires a long time to finish testing.

Worth it, will pull out defective address exactly so you can pinpoint which stick (or slot) has gone bad.
 
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