Hi all,

for some weeks my desktop has been turning off. Especially, and
it seems only, when I try to play media. Videos, recording sound
off the web, during a game etc. I can't watch Youtube or even
read some newspapers or other sites with embedded video. Some
times a Restart (from XP Desktop) actually turns the PC off

Looking into the 3D modelling programs in last fortnight revealed
that they too will crash the machine

Otherwise I can play around with any other non-media program
all day. For example Eagle. I have a job which needs to be done
fairly urgently - I'm a day away - so I'm reluctant to pull the PC
apart at the moment

I thought it might have been a problem with Flash or a card but
none of the tests/fixes/upgrades seemed to make any difference.

A friend suggested a memory problem, so I dug out the bootable
Memtest 386+ CD.

During every single test (tried it 5 times), the PC crashes at some
point. Just powers down and can't be restarted for many seconds.

Is this a big hairy finger of Doom pointing at bad memory ? Seems
to rule out anything Windows related. From what I've read about
Memtest it should get through the test, and report errors at the end.
Had a quick Google but didn't see any reference to it doing anything
else. The Memtest forum is concerned only with s/w, not h/w issues

At the moment I have 2GB, but had thought about upping to 4GB
before all this, so memory was on the To Do list anyway.

TIA

Joe


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