Zippy…
Zippy’s been to hell and back.
Random crashing over the last few weeks. I wasn’t aware of it, due to the fact it’s not really my machine.
It was put down to Windows ME being shit. So it was decided that it was time for XP to be installed. And while backing up it kept crashing.
The information on it was pretty much backed up anyway, so it was wiped during the XP install. Except it kept crashing at 56% of transferring the files from the XP disk. This is an original CD as well, so exactly why it did it was beyond me.
Suspecting a disk problem, I backed up the disk on Beastbits. No errors while copying it. It can’t have been the media. The backup did exactly the same thing too.
I went to work, trying to figure out the problem. Came home this morning and ran Memtest. And oh-my-god, it lit up like a fruit machine. So, the memory was replaced, and the installation retried. Got past copying the files. But, during the install, this error appeared…
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Full format, reinstall later, everything appeared fine, except it would crash when starting Windows in normal mode. Monitor would go into Standby or show “Out of Range”.
Turned the memory timing down to 100Mhz (even though they’re supposed to be 133’s) and everything now appears fine. Updates if and when needed.
