Re: Memtest stops at pass 78% and other problems....
- From: Louise <none@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:28:07 GMT
In article <42e9fad5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, spodosaurus@xxxxxxxxxxx
says...
> Louise wrote:
> > I'm trying to track down partial failures - some programs work most of
> > the time, some never work and some work sometimes.
> >
> > This happened all of a sudden and the only even I know of was a brief
> > power failure or deep brownout. Whichever it was, the lights dimmed to
> > almost nothing and came back up within 30 seconds or maybe even less. I
> > have a UPS but I don't think it even got set off.
>
> Then your UPS is not functioning properly, doing who knows what to the
> current coming in through it. Replace it. There is no lag time in a
> working UPS.
>
> >
> > My computer worked fine for the rest of the night but when I shut down
> > and turned it on in the AM, some programs weren't loading properly, some
> > wouldn't load at all, and some were fine.
>
> Again, if your UPS was working this brownout wouldn't have affected the
> computer (assuming no surge was involved). Brownouts eat hard drives
> Have you downloaded (on a different computer, obviously) the program
> from your hard drive manufacturer to test your drive with?
>
> >
> > This is an ASUS P4C800E Deluxe with 2 gig of Kingston ram (4 dimms), and
> > a 120gig Seagate SATA hard drive. I checked the cables and they are
> > tight.
> >
>
> It would take one hell of a 'brownout' to knock cables free!
>
> > I ran chkdsk /f /r.
>
> And the results were?
>
> > I ran a virus checker in addition to the one
> > installed. I defragged.
> >
> > Finally I restored a Ghost image from about 2 weeks ago. This erratic
> > behavior continued even with the restored image.
>
> Time to figure out which pieces of hardware got cooked.
>
> >
> > Seatools reports critical error on the NTFS file system even after I ran
> > chkdsk.
>
> What else does seatools report? Did you do a full scan with it?
>
> >
Running chkdsk /f /r doesn't give results in Win XP Pro (or at least not
on my machine :-). It just does its thing and then it's gone and you're
back at the desktop.
No viruses were found
Seatools reported no error other than a critical fault in the NTFS file
system, index, (can't remember what else). It suggested running all the
defrag, chkdsk etc. Which I did. Seatools was run in full scan and no
other errors were reported.
CPU - 45C
Motherboard - 31C
Vcore Voltage 1.552
3.3v - 3.24 to 3.26
5v - 4.95 to 4.97
12v - 11.96 to 11.97
How are these numbers?
These figures were taken off the motherboard because my other monitoring
program is one of the many programs that isn't functioning.
As per some suggestions here, I have turned up the fan on the CPU (have
an adjustable fan-mate on it). It is now as high as it will go.
I am going to re-run memtest.
BTW, on the Asus board I have, memory is in pairs - I can take out one
pair and check it again. That will be my next step if this fails.
Any and all thoughts greatly appreciated.
Louise
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