micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:58:55 -0400, micky
wrote:

I've posted about my 10 crashes in the last week.

It's working now.

Quicker than buying another PC, which I know will take me a week or two,
is using one of the desktop computers people have given me, with their
hdd removed.

Assuming** that their hardware is exactly like what I'm using now, if I
image my harddrive, and install that, will I drag whatever problem I
have with me?????

Well, I installed the clone and had the same problem. So either it's
in the PC, the memorey or the CPU or something, or it's in the software
and the clone has it too, of course.
I ran Memtest Wednesday and found no errors, but I only ran it 45
minutes before I had to stop to watch a zoom session, which turned out
to be on Thursday anyhow and turned out to not be very good. :=(

I ran memtest for 10 hours, 3 or 4 posses, and it gave no errors.

I ran sfc /scannow but each time it closed after 10 seconds or less.
That seems bad, but no error message.

I ran sfc /scannow not from the Run box but from a DOS box and it 10
minutes or something and noted no errors.
Maybe I should run checkdisk for the HDD?


**I have software*** that uses generic drivers at first, until the
proper drivers can be installed, so that one can copy a system to a
different computer.

***Acronis True Image 19 Backup universal restore, and
Paragon Bakcup and REcovery 10.

I havent' tried either of these yet, but I really want to.


So it's probably some sort of driver issue. Or something
evil some application cooked up, which is giving the
OS indigestion.

*******

The Prime95 package, has an option called the Torture Test.
Before the program will trust the ability of a computer to
compute or check large prime numbers, it needs to check
that the computer is healthy. You can use this software
to check for flaky hardware on your computer. This is a
step past Memtest, and uncovers problems Memtest cannot
see. I recommend a minimum of four hours testing, without
any thread throwing an error.

https://www.mersenne.org/download/

When it asks to "Join GIMPS", say No.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/prime95/prime95.html

In (6) here, you can see a "thread of execution per CPU core".
In your four hour test period, none of those should turn "RED".
"RED" means there was a failure.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...-your-cpu.html

You could try the Blend option for a starting run.

Using custom and getting the memory allocation set correctly,
takes a bit of practice before you get it right.

That program has, on some occasion, used AVX (that's a type
of CPU instruction). See posting #2 here, for some mention
of turning that off if it makes the machine too unstable.
Some machines don't have the AVX which runs hot, so there
is less to worry about. My newest machine doesn't have
the fancy flavor of AVX, so I probably won't be reading
post #2.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/thre...o-avx.3515075/

In any case, it's a worthwhile "extended" test for memory.
As long as you select an option that "tests lots of memory".
Small FFTs won't do that especially well. But a Small FFT
might uncover a defective CPU.

Paul