Speak from my personal experience, this problem is 95% RAM fail, and 5% software related. If it happened even after a clear reload, it is 99% RAM fault.

If I saw an error msg like that, the first think I'll do is to replace RAM.

Jun Qian

J & M Home Computer Services wrote:

> This question may have been asked before but as usual it seems to keep coming up and I can't seem to get an answer that is quite satisfactory.
>
> I have some machines that just keep crashing and coming up with vxd faults showing. This happens even with a clean reinstall of 95 or 98 after repartitioning and format.
>
> The question is: Is this a hardware or software fault. I believe it's a hardware fault but keep getting arguments that it's a software fault.
>
> Can someone put a bit of light on this question?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael J. Murray
>
> Scotland
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