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System continually locking up.

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HRslammR

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alright so it had been locking up randomly during normal use for no reason. and my cd-rw quit reading anything, shows up in the bios and boot up but quits reading. so i decided to start zeroing in on it. big mistake. i have the system in my sig. my RAM has 3 slots, let's call them slots 1,2,3.. i had two sticks, let's call them A and B.

i had the two sticks in slot 1 and slot 3. so i took out stick B and left A in slot 1. booted it up and it got to the "windows 2000 is loading" screen with the scroll bar... and it locks up and can't get past that screen. so i move it to slot 2 and it boots up normally. shut down and put it into slot 3. locks up. so at this point stick A only works with slot 2.

so i start with stick B. place it into slot 1, works fine, boots normally. slot 2. doesn't work. slot 3 locks up. so i now know that B works only with slot 1.

so i proceed to place stick B into slot 1 and stick A into slot 2. and i boot it up. locks up. so i start all over again.

stick A into slot 1. no work. stick A into slot 2. doesn't work. WHAT? it worked 5 minutes earlier! stick A into slot 3. still no work.

stick B into slot 1. no work. again, WTF? stick B into slot 2 no work. same with slot 3.

now again, what i mean by "no work" and "lock up" is it boots fine until it gets to the "loading windows 2000" screen and locks up.

i'm so very frustrated. i'm running memtest86 on it and at the moment it's at almost 80% complete with not a single error found.

here's my question, does this sound like an A. RAM error? B. motherboard error? C. windows 2000 error?

help. :(
 
basically, the working slots of ram seemed to alternate between working and not working.

memtest has been running for an hour and has not found any problems.

my next step is to format.

however, if stick A was to be traveling along the memory bandwidth at 45gigs a second and left interrupt 3 at 8:41AM and stick B was traveling at 50 gigs a second and left interrupt 7 at 9:31... :p
 
i think my computer is a sentient being.

formatted. runs like a charm.

so strange.
 
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