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How to test memory for Dell systems?
Hello and thanks for any help you can provide...
I have four Dell GX-150 systems all loaded with 512meg of memory on two 256meg strips... generic memory I puchased off Ebay. The memory all tests good using the Microsoft Memory Test program but I'm having this funky Missing "system32ntoskrnl.exe" issue over and over on several of the machines and I cannot find any reason for it. I have three other GX-150 machines and never this issue... not once. The only thing I can think of is it does not like the memory for some reason. It should take up to 512meg according to the specs, correct? Is there some reason all PC133 (non ECC) memory will not work in this Dell and is there any test I can use for checking memory compatibility? Thanks! |
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How to test memory for Dell systems?
Hi!
The memory all tests good using the Microsoft Memory Test program but I'm having this funky Missing "system32ntoskrnl.exe" issue over and over on several of the machines and I cannot find any reason for it. Are you sure the installed OS is good? and is there any test I can use for checking memory compatibility? Memtest 86 and Memtest 86+ are both good checks, as is putting the memory in another known working computer. You could also try a live Linux on CD. William |
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How to test memory for Dell systems?
"scooterspal" wrote in message ... Hello and thanks for any help you can provide... I have four Dell GX-150 systems all loaded with 512meg of memory on two 256meg strips... generic memory I puchased off Ebay. The memory all tests good using the Microsoft Memory Test program but I'm having this funky Missing "system32ntoskrnl.exe" issue over and over on several of the machines and I cannot find any reason for it. I have three other GX-150 machines and never this issue... not once. The only thing I can think of is it does not like the memory for some reason. It should take up to 512meg according to the specs, correct? Is there some reason all PC133 (non ECC) memory will not work in this Dell and is there any test I can use for checking memory compatibility? Thanks! F12 at start up then Diagnostics.........one part checks the memory. |
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How to test memory for Dell systems?
The memory all tests good using the Microsoft Memory Test program
but I'm having this funky Missing "system32ntoskrnl.exe" issue over and over on several of the machines and I cannot find any reason for it. IIRC that can happen if the registry becomes corrupt... if the "new" memory is removed do they boot ok ? XP SP2 actually has a backup directory, and if you're really stuck and it is a registry error, you can replace the existing registry with the backups. |
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How to test memory for Dell systems?
Ineffectively and not very comprehensively. I'd call the Dell diags memory test
a quick sanity test... Ben Myers On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:19:49 +0100, "tpow" wrote: "scooterspal" wrote in message ... Hello and thanks for any help you can provide... I have four Dell GX-150 systems all loaded with 512meg of memory on two 256meg strips... generic memory I puchased off Ebay. The memory all tests good using the Microsoft Memory Test program but I'm having this funky Missing "system32ntoskrnl.exe" issue over and over on several of the machines and I cannot find any reason for it. I have three other GX-150 machines and never this issue... not once. The only thing I can think of is it does not like the memory for some reason. It should take up to 512meg according to the specs, correct? Is there some reason all PC133 (non ECC) memory will not work in this Dell and is there any test I can use for checking memory compatibility? Thanks! F12 at start up then Diagnostics.........one part checks the memory. |
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How to test memory for Dell systems?
"Ben Myers" wrote in message ... Ineffectively and not very comprehensively. I'd call the Dell diags memory test a quick sanity test... Ben Myers Use the 'custom test' feature and run the extended MATS tests. Extremely thorough and imo reliable. Depending on the system speed and the total amount of RAM, one pass can take in the neighborhood of an hour or two. |
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How to test memory for Dell systems?
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:11:56 -0400, scooterspal
wrote: Hello and thanks for any help you can provide... I have four Dell GX-150 systems all loaded with 512meg of memory on two 256meg strips... generic memory I puchased off Ebay. The memory all tests good using the Microsoft Memory Test program but I'm having this funky Missing "system32ntoskrnl.exe" issue over and over on several of the machines and I cannot find any reason for it. I have three other GX-150 machines and never this issue... not once. The only thing I can think of is it does not like the memory for some reason. It should take up to 512meg according to the specs, correct? Is there some reason all PC133 (non ECC) memory will not work in this Dell and is there any test I can use for checking memory compatibility? Thanks! check Crucial.com for correct memory modules and you might want to try some of these files to confirm or deny your results .... http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwmemory.html I think your issue is for a hardware problem. |
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