windows keeps crashing please help as the subjects says windows keeps crashing givinh me gpf on me of late it was never a very stable package but now it seems to crash every day the worst part about it is that it does not crash consistently ie i can t reproduce crashes and they are not always gpf s in the same application sometimes i can recover by simply closing the application that caused an error but other times windows acts very strange and i need to re boot some background i have a leading edge sx with phoenix bios when i first got it it had mg of memory it ran windows fine not too many gpf s then a couple of weekends ago i installed lotus for windows with atm a game card and an additional mg simms the leading edge machine is kind of strange in that it has the ide controler built into the motherboard the cpu is actually on a sparate board that plugs into the motherboard and the simms it uses are macintosh simms apparently i was told that the leading edge had the parity bit built into the mother board the original mg ns simms where of the chip variety from samsung and the ones i installed are chip simms they are recognized fine by the bios ram check the game card is a generic gamecard the reason why i mention the hardware like this is that sometimes rebooting the machine using the reset button or ctl alt del still leaves the machine kind of flaky but turning it on and off doesn t i haven t tried taking out the ram or the game card because as i said these gpf are not reproducible at will i have gone through and entire day using the computer with no problems and then i might get or so gpf s in the sppace of minutes what can i do this situation is most annoying are there any good diagnostic tools for hardware do you think that this might be a software problem ie emm etc if it helps i have manage to get gpf s on after dark quicken paint shop pro a lot of them have been in user exe or gdi exe any help is truly appreciated eric ebosco us oracle com
