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To: mr.mark who wrote (14711)	1/9/2001 1:39:31 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110631

I got a weird problem with my Mom's computer (my old computer). It's buzzing and the hard drive, A drive and D drive lights are blinking. When I reboot the buzz stops for about 7 minutes then returns. After 10 minutes of buzzing the buzz stops for a while then returns. The PC has a pentium 233 with Win 98 1st edition and 128 sdram. The first few times I tried to get online during after the buzz started I couldn't but after a few reboots I was able to get online. Another problem this PC has which may be related is a memory leak which started last week. 3 browser windows were using up over 100 RAM with nothing else open besides Explorer, Systray and Cprbrwtch. After trying for 2 days to find the source of the memory leak I gave up and reformatted the harddrive. For a week everything was fine, yesterday the leak returned. Right after booting with only Explorer, Systray and Cprbrwtch open about 1/2 the memory was only available. My best guess is bad RAM. Currently I have 128 RAM in one slot I was going to try the old RAM, 32 RAM a piece in 2 slots to see if that made a difference unless anyone here had a better idea. I have all ready done a standard scan disk and am about to do a thorough scan disk. Afterwards I'll check back here. HELP!!!!!! and a pre thanks for any help offered.