[30] in winnt
Re: Beta version of Windows NT web pages available for your review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Tappendorf)
Fri Jul 4 23:22:08 1997
In-Reply-To: <9707041449.AA14752@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 23:06:26 -0400
To: Dave Hardy <TOONCES@mitvma.mit.edu>, Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>,
winnt@MIT.EDU
From: Sean Tappendorf <seant@MIT.EDU>
Cc: vanaken@MIT.EDU, cmeehan@MIT.EDU
With only 16 Mb and the error that you list the machine needs more memory.
Most listly its swapping to much for the system to handle. I've seen this
before and adding more memory fixed the problem.
Sean
At 10:42 AM -0400 7/4/97, Dave Hardy wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 17:40:04 -0400 you said:
>> Can you take the time to look at the current pages starting at this url
>>
>> http://web.mit.edu/is/help/winnt/
>>
>>and send us your comments? I'm interested in any remarks you have, but
>>especially in things like important issues that are not discussed,
>>technical tips we'd like to make sure users hear, etc.
>
>Hi, the winnt pages look pretty good, but what I would really like to see
>is a listing of all the "blue screen of death" STOP codes, what they
>mean, and how to interpret them, or a pointer to this information if it
>exists anywhere. I've got an HP Vectra P75 with 16M RAM that crashes
>randomly anywhere from 2-6 times per day. Really annoying when I'm
>supposed to be supporting and developing on NT for our clients. I am
>lobbying for a faster machine with more memory (REQUIRED, in my opinion,
>and this machine isn't even the MIT recommended minimum), but since I'm
>stuck with it for the moment I'd like to figure out what's wrong with
>this one until I can get a new one.
>
>Are there any good NT diagnostic tools that will test memory, hardware,
>configurations, etc? I havn't found any of those either, and many (but
>not all) of the crashes are PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA which sounds like
>a memory problem to me.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
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