You are welcome, Colin.
Our beloved 64-bit NG is too quiet lately so I tend to take a peek at this
one and do my stuff here too.
I am electrical engineer so hardware always attracts me (second place after
women!).
:)
Carlos

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
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> Thanks for jumping in Carlos! I needed the help.
>
> "Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B36F4CF7-6D48-4E30-A337-2B4875440BD5@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > Colin,
> > A faulty memory stick could be the cause.
> > In that case the OP might want to download Memtest86
> > ([url]http://www.memtest86.com/[/url]), the memory test utility recommended by
> > many (one of Charlie's favorites).
> > Direct D/L link for ISO version:
> > [url]http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.4a.iso.zip[/url]
> > Direct D/L link for floppy installer:
> > [url]http://www.memtest86.com/memtest34a.zip[/url]
> >
> > I also think that the 600W PSU might be working at max capacity, let us
> > not
> > forget that he has a 6400+ processor (this beast eats 125W!) and an
> > 8800GTX
> > card (another watts eating device).
> > :)
> > Carlos
> >
> >
> > "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
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> >> I have seen some of the gurus on memory that post in this ng comment that
> >> the results from the Microsoft diagnostic is not definitive and that a
> >> more
> >> exacting tester is needed if one is to eliminate memory as a possible
> >> cause.
> >> I have used Azureus on x64 Vista without the behavior you describe. I
> >> will
> >> leave the memory issue to the gurus in the hope that one will respond.
> >> In
> >> the meantime I suggest you take a look at this KB article:
> >> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936212/en-us[/url]
> >>
> >> "Quik" <Quik@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:380B1AAF-72DB-475C-8B3C-C6B5B97B0191@microsoft.com...
> >> > Well I reinstalled Winamp, Azureus and Firefox and I had them running
> >> > all
> >> > at
> >> > once now and the computer crashed again. It took longer to crash but it
> >> > crashed. I was looking at vista's resource monitor and it was telling
> >> > me
> >> > almost 150 hard fails/min on the Azureus.exe process. I did a test with
> >> > Microsoft's Memory Diagnostic and I had 2 runs with it and 0 errors...
> >> >
> >> > It just happened recently though, I had the computer running for a
> >> > month
> >> > and
> >> > a half without problems and its starting to give me problems now.
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