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    Does anyone know of a good Online Diagnostic program?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by sbpatel, Apr 16, 2007.

  1. sbpatel

    sbpatel Notebook Consultant

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    My Acer is have major problems. Yesterday I had four bsod. Each time it said either "Dumping Physical Memory" or "Kernel Stack In-Page Error". Each time when it restarted it would say "Fixed Disk Error". After 5 minutes it would work again. Then about 2 hours later I would get the BSOD. I ran multiple spy ware and anti-virus. Nothing popped up. I did a check disk in command prompt and it came back with 32kb of bad sectors. I don't think that much makes a difference, but who knows? Does anyone have any ideas? Lastly, does anyone know of a good online diagnostic program? I don't know what the problem is. It could be bad ram, my hard drive, a malicious program, or a combination of bad ram and a bad HD. I highly doubt it's a malicious program.
     
    sbpatel, Apr 16, 2007
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    For ram nothing is better than memtest86+.

    Try running that. If no problems there, then it's the OS that became somewhat corrupt, or you're having some driver issues/instability.
     
    adinu, Apr 16, 2007
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  3. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Run memtest86+, and you may try other programs as well. First things first, I would back up EVERYTHING important on that drive RIGHT NOW. Drives failing usually start with a few bad clusters, then go completely down the drain fairly quickly. You may be looking at needing a new drive.

    I've found that www.sysresccd.org has a great system tools disc that you can burn to a CD and use to test a system, and it won't change anything on your hard drive.
     
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