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Why does bad RAM look good?

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larsrulz

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I finally solved a "Windows Protection Error" problem I've had with Windows 95 for over a year. The culprit was a memory module my roomate gave me because it locked up his Dell. Strangely enough, memtest86 never complained about it and both Win2k and Linux run fine. Only the Win95 video card driver interacts with it in a such a way as to make booting regularly impossible.

Besides the obvious "Win95 sucks" answer, why does that stick of RAM not play well with others?
 
memtest is positive that it works fine. I can run it over and over and over again. This is just obviously an issue that only exists between 95 and the memory.
 
I have had this same problem but with win 98se. I have no idea why this happens. The same memory works just fine in other machines with the same OS and Red Hat and also have it now in a 2000pro box it will just get funky now and then in one particular machine. It is a windows thing I guess.

Bleep
 
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