>>>>I don't know if this is the place for this, but I'll try anyway. Miichel, if this doesn't belong here, please accept my apologies in advance.
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>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>>
>>>
>>>Dallen
>>>
>>> Check out this product from the Quarterdeck Company it's called REAL HELP.
>>>It's a piece of software that analizes your PC for conflicts both software as well as hardware. I use this at work on some Win 95 PCs that were doing some strange stuff. So see their Web site for more info WWW.QUARTERDECK.COM.
>>>Good Luck.
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>>Try disabling the CPU internal cache, if this stops the crashes you have a bad internal cache in the CPU.
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>>Wes
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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?
>
>Thnaks for you assistance; I'm learning more about PC hardware than I ever knew before


Hi there,

Sorry for the delay. You do it in the system bios I believe it is called internal cache. It is in the CPU, not the external cache usually...

Wes