Windows 2000 Pro System is freezing... Plz just read :)

[Xtremist]

Hey all,

I just sold some Mushkin rev.2 RAM and got some Kingston PC100 instead... Don't ask why Well, ok, it's running on a BH6 so it's not like I'm USING the sweetness that rev.2 provides... Anyhow, now I've had the computer freeze on me a couple of times... Always when I goto empty the recycle bin. Everything just freezes. The hard drive light will turn on and stay on. If I wait for a bit and then actually HIT the damn case in the front the light turns off. Sometimes it unfreezes, sometimes it doesn't. I can ALWAYS reboot just fine... Then I double-clicked a mp3 on my desktop (so C:\), same thing. Hit the case and it fixed itself... So I procede to defrag all my partitions on both drives. Low and behold after that gets done, I click to analyze my... g: (the second hard drive, c and d r the primary hdd)... It then froze and I had to reboot... My question I guess would be if this is the hard drive??? Or maybe the RAM? It just "seems" that it'd be the HDD, however the only thing I've "changed" in the configuration when this started happening is the RAM... Anyway, just wondering if I could get some ideas cuz GEEZ this is pissin' me off! Thanx!

 

[HaVoC]

RAM problems tend to be more random lockups or lockups under memory intensive games, etc. Your recurrent problem due to emptying the RB sounds like it might be a hard drive issue.

 

[Xtremist]

Is there some specific utility I can use to detect if it is? I have both defraged and did the FULL error checking on all my partitions. Hasn't showed anything Anyhow, I'd obviously like to detect this problem before it REALLY becomes a problem and I start losing data... Any help is appreciated immensely...

 

[beafer]

Word of advice: It is the HD. I had a NT box doing the same thing and 2 days later, well i dont even have to tell you what happened....

 

[dawks]

Maybe try reseating the RAM a few times.. shrug.

 

[Xtremist]

Well, I went into the BIOS and changed the RAM timing from 2-2-2 (what I had for the Mushkin) to 3-3-3. It hasn't frozen since. I emptied the trash like ten times and it hasn't froze yet... Later today I'll probably take the RAM out and get the exact spec's on it. When I bought it, he said CAS2, so it's probably like 2-2-3 or something I guess? Who knows... I REALLY REALLY hope this is the problem instead of the HDD though...