[OT]Dumb hardware question

[gboyce2 at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 13:45, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> My wife's windoz system freezes randomly and I don't believe it is
> software. I put in a new power supply, but that did not fix the problem.
> I reseated the boards. However, I have not been able to reseat the CPU
> (AMD Athalon). The heat sync is clipped on and I don't want to use brute
> force to pull it off. With this little info, anyone want to take a quick
> stab at advice to remove the heat sync. 
> 
> (My next step is to bring up Knoppix and see if I get a freeze here). 

You might want to run memtest86 first.  It'll check for bad memory,
which could easily cause freezes, and you dont' have to talk anything
apart first.

http://www.memtest86.com/

-- 
Gregory Boyce <gboyce2 at badbelly.com>