[Web4lib] intermittent blue screens of death

[Robert Balliot]

I would check the power supply too.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Cindy Murdock Ames <cmurdock at ccfls.org>wrote:

> I would suggest testing the memory with memtest86.  Most Linux
> distributions include it on their installation cd images.  It should be
> available as a choice from the disk's boot menu.
>
> Cheers,
> Cindy
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> On 08/09/2011 07:13 AM, John Fitzgibbon wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> On our public Internet PCs, we will occasionally have a PC that will
>> intermittently crash with a blue screen of death. This problem develops over
>> time for no apparent reason, and the crashes occur about once or twice per
>> day. The problem develops without any hardware or software being installed.
>> I suspect the problem is being caused by the wearing out of the hard disk,
>> but I am not sure of this. The PCs have a Juzt-Reboot card which wipes all
>> data upon reboot; presumably, this means there is no memory dump file to
>> examine. Frequently, the problem is solved by reinstalling the operating
>> system (Windows XP), drivers, and software without changing the hard disk.
>>
>> Is there a better way of dealing with this problem? When I reinstall the
>> operating system, should I also change the hard disk, to pre-empt imminent
>> problems, simply because the hard disk is over a certain age?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> John Fitzgibbon
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