Posted by AnthonyR on 11/13/05 03:14

"Jona Vark" <noemail@all.com> wrote in message
news:ZrKcf.15054$q%.7237@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
>
> I have been designing and building computers since about '78. No that's
> not
> how they work. Memory is not necessarily allocated from the bottom up. At
> any point you can be using any portion of memory. The assertion that some
> program will 'tax' a computer more than others is an analogy to mechanical
> devices that isn't relevant.
>
>

OK you made me question myself for a second, lol
I did a quick google and found this page:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1565


and this is from it, check out no. 3.
Signs of bad memory: 1. Starts Smoking, 2. Becomes Moody...

The indicators of faulty memory are legion, but let's start with a few
common ones. From the top:


1.. Blue screens during the install procedure of Windows 2000 or XP. This
is one of the surest signs of faulty memory.
2.. Random crashes or blue screens during the running of 2000 or XP. Note
that heat can also be a culprit in the case of general flakiness like this,
so you should test for that possibility too.
3.. Crashes during memory intensive operations. 3D games, benchmarks,
compiling, Photoshop, etc.
4.. Distorted graphics on screen. This can also be related to the video
card.
5.. Failure to boot. This can be accompanied by repeated long beeps, which
is the accepted BIOS beep code for a memory problem. In this circumstance,
you cannot test the memory with diagnostic software, so your only option is
testing by replacement, either at home or at your computer dealer.

Memory intensive software causing computer crashes is a big issue with bad
memory.
And as I said earlier pinnacle Liquid Edition is very memory intensive
taking over the entire desktop and graphic
system of a PC, so naturally someone with a bad memory stick would
experience problems using it where
they might not see these memory issues with a different piece of software.
I didn't think I was saying anything so controversial, Jona. And I am not
stating definitively that memory issues
are what you experienced with Liquid Edition or defending Pinnacle, I was
just offering a suggestion of something to check for.

You know me, always just trying to be helpful :)
AnthonyR.

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