How to Test your RAMGuide Overview

The purpose of this guide is to teach you how to check whether your system's RAM (Ramdom Access Memory) is working properly. Bad RAM can lead to a whole host of problems, often which do not appear to have a single cause -- appearing as systemwide glitches, blue screens, and other system trouble. MemTest86+ provides a very good detection mechanism for failed RAM, and is about as good a test you get short of actually replacing the module itself.

Tools Needed

Please perform these steps from a separate, working, machine.
Download MemTest86+, and unzip it to your desktop.
Burn the image file to a CD, as an image file. If you're unsure how to do this, see the How to Burn an ISO FilePerform these steps on the problem machine.
Put your CD in the drive and configure your machine to boot to the CD. This is different on all machines, but it's usually by pressing F12 or F10 as your system boots, and selecting either "CDROM" or your cdrom drive. If you are unable to force a CDRom boot, reply with the make and model of your machine and I should be able to get you exact instructions.
If you've done it correctly, MemTest86+ will start to run automaticly, as shown below:

If you want to be reasonably your RAM is OK, then allow MemTest to run until you see this message:

On the other hand, if you want to be completely sure your RAM is OK, allow MemTest to run overnight. Memtest will run forever until power is pulled on the machine.
Check the MemTest screen for any reported errors. Errors will appear as RED warnings at the bottom of the screen, similar to the following screenshot:

Hard-Reset the machine, removing the MemTest disk in the process.If you didn't get an error screen, Congratulations!

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Xp Repair guide

If you have Windows CD...(if you don't have Windows CD, scroll down)1. Insert your Windows XP CD into your CD and assure that your CD-ROM drive is capable of booting the CD.2. Once you have booted from CD, do NOT select the option that states: Press F2 to initiate the Automated System Recovery (ASR) tool. You’re going to proceed until you see the following screen, at which point you will press the “R” key to enter the recovery console:

3. After you have selected the appropriate option from step two, you will be prompted to select a valid Windows installation (typically number “1″). Select the installation number, and hit Enter. If there is an administrator password for the administrator account, enter it and hit Enter (if asked for the password, and you don't know it, you're out of luck). You will be greeted with this screen, which indicates a recovery console at the ready:

4. There are eight commands you must enter in sequence to repair your problem.. I will introduce them here, and then show the results graphically in the next six steps. NOTE. Make sure, you press Enter after each command. Make sure, all commands are exact, including "spaces".These commands are as follows: CD..ATTRIB -H C:\\boot.iniATTRIB -S C:\\boot.iniATRIB -R C:\\boot.inidel boot.iniBOOTCFG /RebuildNote about the above command.BOOTCFG /REBUILD command which searches for pre-existing installations of Windows XP and rebuilds sundry essential components of the Windows operating system, recompiles the BOOT.INI file and corrects a litany of common Windows errors. It is very important that you do one or both of the following two things: A.) Every Windows XP owner must use /FASTDETECT as OS Load Option when the rebuild process is finalizing. B.) If you are the owner of a CPU featuring Intel’s XD or AMD’s NX buffer overflow protection, you must also use /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN as an OS Load Option. For the Enter Load Identifier portion of this command, you should enter the name of the operating system you have installed. If, for example, you are using Windows XP Home, you could type Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition for the identifier (it's not crucial, however what the name is, as long, as it's meaningful). Here is your computer screen:

5. Following command verifies the integrity of the hard drive containing the Windows XP installation. While this step is not an essential function in our process, it’s still good to be sure that the drive is physically capable of running windows, in that it contains no bad sectors or other corruptions that might be the culprit:CHKDSK /R6. This last command writes a new boot sector to the hard drive and cleans up all the loose ends we created by rebuilding the BOOT.INI file and the system files. When the Windows Recovery Console asks you if you are Sure you want to write a new bootsector to the partition C: ? just hit “Y”, then Enter to confirm your decision:FIXBOOT7. It’s time to reboot your PC by typing EXIT and pressing Enter.With any luck, your PC will boot successfully into Windows XP as if your various DLL, Hive, EXE and NTLDR errors never existed.If you don't have Windows CD...

Download Windows Recovery Console:

http://www.thecomputerparamedic.com/files/rc.iso

Download, and install free Imgburn:

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

Using Imgburn, burn rc.iso to a CD.Boot to the CD...let it finish loading.When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.Then, follow instructions from Step #3 above.