How does one go about checking if RAM is bad or not? I read somehwere that the windows RAM test is not a good way to check the actual ram chip. . .had something to do with read/write versus something else. Can anyone point me in the right direction? -drewOh. . .thought of something else too. I have a bare minimum install of Win98SE on it's own drive and have noticed taht I've been getting a lot of explorer crashes recently. It seems to be intermittant when closing any open windows on the desktop. It also happens when trying to empty the recycle bin, also intermittant. I have Norton Utilities and have run the system check and it has found nothing. Hmm. . .now that I think about it too, when I try to defrag (with Norton) my FS drive (70 gigs of an 80 gig HDD in partitions) it gets through the sorting directories portion and then locks up every time around 50% complete. I've had successful defrags in teh past, so I don't know why it just stopped working. Alright. . .I've asked it all. If anyone can shed any light on these questions, please feel free to do so. Thanks!

If you have 2 memory cards in the system, try swapping them. If the high memory card has a problem, when it's swapped to the low memory position, the problems should be different, and happen much more often. That procedure solved a highly intermittent problem on this system.Good luck,

http://www.memtest86.com