- Bad RAM and system corruption<DIV><A href="http://www.tongfamily.com/guide_to_pcs/000217.html">This post</A> reminded me that I also ran into a system with strange corruption recently, but it had nothing to do with overclocking. In my case, it was bad RAM.</DIV>
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<DIV>It took me a while to clue in. My system would randomly crash, documents I was working with would get corrupted in RAM (I'd scroll the document and I could see bad portions of it, changing as I'd scroll it into and out of view).</DIV>
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<DIV>I used the <A href="http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp">Microsoft Memory Diagnostic</A> to verify that it was bad RAM. After swapping the RAM, no more problems.</DIV>
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<DIV>Maybe overclocking can cause memory errors? </DIV>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:05 GMT