Hi there 
I should have posted much sooner than this, but I guess I just didn't think of it.
I own a Compaq R3140CA laptop, and have had it for about a year now. A few months back, my system started having total system lockups out of nowhere. I mean, I'm checking my email, chatting on MSN, nothing strenuous, and then it happens, forcing me to do a hard-reboot.
I thought that it was because maybe I needed more RAM (came stock with 512MB of PC2700 SO-DIMM). So I purchased a stick of Corsair 1024MB PC3200 SO-DIMM memory, thinking it may solve the problem. So I install it, turn the laptop on, and everything is all fine and dandy for a few days, before the same thing starts happening again.
At this point, I am miffed, and getting very frustrated. As a precaution, I ran a memory test program that my friend uses at Staples, looped that for 8 hours while I was at work, came home, and it found no errors whatsoever.
So, as another precaution, I remove the new RAM, and it still freezes up, with the occasional BSOD, of course.
So, now that I have come to the conclusion it isn't the new RAM, I call Compaq. I explain what I have just told you, and they, of course, blame the RAM, and ignore the fact that it was doing this before the new RAM was installed.
So, here I am before you, a broken, bitter man looking for assistance with his laptop
I, of course, have everything up-to-date like BIOS, Windows and other important programs like Office, etc. I have scanned for viruses, and came up empty. I have scanned for spyware with Ad-Aware, and came up empty again.
Here are my specs *taken from CPU-Z*:
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Code Name ClawHammer
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Family / Model / Stepping F 4 8
Extended Family / Model F 4
Brand ID 1
Package Socket 754
Core Stepping SH7-C0
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, X86-64
CPU Clock Speed 798.0 MHz
Clock multiplier x 4.0
HTT Bus Frequency 199.5 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 798.0 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 128 bits
Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Compal
Motherboard model 08A0, 32.41
BIOS vendor Hewlett-Packard
BIOS revision F.34
BIOS release date 12/23/2004
Chipset nVidia nForce3 rev. A4
Southbridge nVidia nForce3 rev. A4
Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1280 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 159.6 MHz
FSB
RAM CPU/5
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 7 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 10 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Infineon DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 256 MBytes
Module 1 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 1024 MBytes
Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Workstation Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Thanks, hopefully someone will know how to fix this...
I should have posted much sooner than this, but I guess I just didn't think of it.
I own a Compaq R3140CA laptop, and have had it for about a year now. A few months back, my system started having total system lockups out of nowhere. I mean, I'm checking my email, chatting on MSN, nothing strenuous, and then it happens, forcing me to do a hard-reboot.
I thought that it was because maybe I needed more RAM (came stock with 512MB of PC2700 SO-DIMM). So I purchased a stick of Corsair 1024MB PC3200 SO-DIMM memory, thinking it may solve the problem. So I install it, turn the laptop on, and everything is all fine and dandy for a few days, before the same thing starts happening again.
At this point, I am miffed, and getting very frustrated. As a precaution, I ran a memory test program that my friend uses at Staples, looped that for 8 hours while I was at work, came home, and it found no errors whatsoever.
So, as another precaution, I remove the new RAM, and it still freezes up, with the occasional BSOD, of course.
So, now that I have come to the conclusion it isn't the new RAM, I call Compaq. I explain what I have just told you, and they, of course, blame the RAM, and ignore the fact that it was doing this before the new RAM was installed.
So, here I am before you, a broken, bitter man looking for assistance with his laptop
I, of course, have everything up-to-date like BIOS, Windows and other important programs like Office, etc. I have scanned for viruses, and came up empty. I have scanned for spyware with Ad-Aware, and came up empty again.
Here are my specs *taken from CPU-Z*:
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Code Name ClawHammer
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Family / Model / Stepping F 4 8
Extended Family / Model F 4
Brand ID 1
Package Socket 754
Core Stepping SH7-C0
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, X86-64
CPU Clock Speed 798.0 MHz
Clock multiplier x 4.0
HTT Bus Frequency 199.5 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 798.0 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 128 bits
Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Compal
Motherboard model 08A0, 32.41
BIOS vendor Hewlett-Packard
BIOS revision F.34
BIOS release date 12/23/2004
Chipset nVidia nForce3 rev. A4
Southbridge nVidia nForce3 rev. A4
Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1280 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 159.6 MHz
FSB
RAM CPU/5 CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 7 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 10 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Infineon DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - 256 MBytes
Module 1 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 1024 MBytes
Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Workstation Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Thanks, hopefully someone will know how to fix this...
