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OK I got the latest ISO file to work (on newer site). Booted it up and it stopped testing after 1 error. Unexpected Interrupt - Halting See attached file for more info. it does say ECC off. I do not think my RAM sticks are ECC so that is what it means I presume. If you can help any more then thanks in advance. I guess I need some new ECC RAM.

Having trouble burning the memtest software to disc. It is not an ISO as advertised but really an .IMG file that only Nero can burn to disc. And to top this off the gzip file one is just zipped the ISO 2 times over so is useless for me to use. I read on the forum others having problems with this dating back last year. From what I can see the memtest software is 2007 that has been repacked and branded new version but the old version is v3 while v2.1 is advertised as being the latest. Depending on which memtest site you go to that is and I downloaded all of them - they are the same except the dates the files were created. I am using the ISO precompiled one (really IMG file) and there are two files. Which one do I use? Both folders or one or none? I wasted 4 discs on this already, yeah and it looks like I am having a good complain now. Memtest site is very misleading to state that they offer precompiled ISO file as if we could click once and burn it then reboot and use it. Hard luck. 6 dfferent lots of burning software and non work with this file. Why is there a BOOT.CAT file in one of the folders, should this not be inside the IMG file itself for it to burn to disc to make it bootable at startup? Or am I meant to start decompiling the image file and make this myself as is with the one that was gzipped? I would just use other software or windows RAM diagnostic tool but it is no good, right? If you can give me a guide on how to burn to disc to make it work using Nero please do thanks. Edit: I just came across this: http://www.ramprobe.com RAM Probe (formerly OTCOMP Memtest86+) is a free memory diagnostic software suite designed to test your RAM for faults. Will give it a go if it works.

Thanks for the verdict on that and also for the advice. I was having trouble logging in - reset my password and still unable to login to this forum but then clicked reply again and even though I was meant to be logged out am now able to post using old password?. Strange. When I registered here there was a problem with the activiation key not matching so another was sent to my email. I will run some RAM diagnostic checks. I ran some a few months back and while running in DOS mode non were detected but in windows they were, Now it may be te other way around - I am not totally sure. Will post updates on this. Thanks.

Here are my 3 recent ones I have. The others were deleted by CCleaner. Thanks for the help. MiniDump_files.zip

I have up to 15 BSOD crashes daily under Vista Ultimate 32bit and also own a copy of of Vista Ultimate 64bit (both versions being legal OEM) but stopped using it as soon as BSOD crashes caused it to kill windows even after recovery attempts it would not boot back into Vista so have been using my Vista Ultimate OEM 32bit for about 1 year on a PC that was built by someone that sells them on ebay. The most common BSOD crashes I have are PAGE_NOT_ZERO_VISTA or the IRQL not equal one. When I analyse the dump files using windows debugger the file shows that the program causing this is either page fault error in windows virtual memory, Firefox v2 (not firefox3 yet) or explorer.exe and sometimes kernel. All these relate to driver faults I think even when dump files say explorer.exe was the cause? I really need help tracing the source of the BSOD crashes. I read something on IRQL uses and that it was one of the top 10 causes of BSOD crashes in windows but my PC is modern enough to have so many IRQL slots for use by hardware and preripherals this should not happen unless the same one is being used by two devices, right.... I have CCleaner installed and it deleted a lot of my dump files unfortunately so only have recent ones. This week has been quiet with BSOD crashes. I am posting my most recent dump files debug info in text format. I hope someone here can help me trace the source of the cause. I am using Canon LiDE 600F scanner installed software and drivers and also a Canon LBP 3000 Laser printer which are both compatible with vista. At this point I want to note that I was having BSOD crashes before I installed my printer and scanner. It is important that I stop these BSOD crashes because it can cause loss of money and hinder work. One other device driver I have is for a Sony Handycam (DCR - SR72E) - USB driver. Edit: It is unlikely that HDD with degraded performance can cause these BSOD crashes? When I first got my PC with Vista Superfetch thrashed my HDD so much that it damaged it. I noticed this while accessing SMART info of my HDD. Now that it has thrashed my HDD and caused damage it no longer thrashes it as much when superfetch runs. Software called Advanced Vista Optimizer 2008 has HDD monitor and shows my HDD performance status is only 21% with health status being 57% - I almost forgot I had a HDD crash that was reported to windows several months ago but since then no more have happened. debuglog.txt