>>>>My home PC crashes a lot, I mean a lot. Often I even look forward to work where the PC never crashes. The home PC is a Pentium-133, 32M memory - nothing special, that I got at a local shop that builds custom systems. The most comon crash is a page fault or illegal operation in a file (often kernel32.dll or user.exe) at a specific memory location (usually prefixed with 0000: or 0137:) Some folks at the office suggest reseating the memory chips or even rotating them (upper to lower, etc).
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>>>>Anyone have any ideas? Or need more information from me?

>>Try disabling the CPU internal cache, if this stops the crashes you have a bad internal cache in the CPU.
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>I'm going to sound real dumb here - How do I disable internal cache? We actually discussed this in the office this morning. I switched the two memory chips assuming if one had a bad spot, the address of the crashes would change. The addresses didn;t change, so I suspected cache. A co-worker is going to bring in a 512K I can swap out of my machine, assuming I have removable cache (I really don't know if I do). If it turns out to be the cache built into the CPU, I assume I have no choice but to buy a new CPU chip, correct?
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>Thnaks for you assistance; I'm learning more about PC hardware than I ever knew before

As mentioned above, reseting and rotating memory didn't help. I disabled cache (internal & external) and it ran VERY slow, but didn't crash, even when updating Pointcast and running Works at the same time; normally a sure way to crash it. I enabled internal cache (8K), and it crashed frequently. I disabled internal cache and enabled external (256K) and it runs without crashing; slow, but not as slow as before. I friend brought in a 256K cache modiule I can add to a DIMM slot to upgrade to 512K external cache which should (I assume) let it run faster. He said to call Intel for a replacment CPU chip because it should have a 5 year warrenty. Any comments?