Re: Weird Word printer problem

["John Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had one machine that was also consistently getting the "cannot read
memory" error. Reinstalling the operating system didn't help. The problem
was finally resolved when I changed the SDRAM chips. W2K seems to be very
picky about RAM quality, and the associated BIOS settings.  You need to make
sure that you know whether your SDRAM chips are CLK2, 3, or 4, and that the
BIOS is set accordlingly.


John Taylor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Palmer" <neilp@dpslink.com>
To: <midrange-nontech@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: Weird Word printer problem


> You must be running Windows2000 Pro.  This 'memory could not be "read"'
> msg seems to appear quite often in Win2000. You would have probably found
> that after a reboot you could have carried on without the error.  I was
> getting this quite often after upgrading from Win98 to Win2000.  Had
> version 9.0 Millennium edition of Lotus SmartSuite.  Reinstalled a few
> times, sometimes I could open WordPro docs, and sometimes I couldn't.
> Problem also extended to opening Word Docs with an old viewer program for
> Word97.  Uninstalled the IBM ViaVoice integration piece from SmartSuite
> and it seems to have solved the problem with both WordPro and older MSWord
> viewer.  But it's not completely gone.  Occasionally I will still get this
> 'cannot "read" memory' msg, a reboot usually makes it go away and let me
> get at my documents again.
>
> ...Neil
>