Open the Event Viewer utility in your Administrative Tools control panel and see if there are any helpful error/warning messages in your System and Application logs.

Depends if you are use ECC OR NON ECC RAM. Some motherboard do not use ECC RAM which is why you might work for hours then force to restart or get the blue screen of death. Replaced ram with non ECC RAM or different band and see what happen. if this doesn't work supect video card.

My RAM is neither of those. Isn't that outdated RAM?

I have DDR RAM

Thanks


Michelle

Ecc And Non Ecc Is Not A Type Of Ram!
(ecc Means Error Correction Control.)
Some Motherboards Can't Use This Type Of Ram, And Yes They Are Ddr Rams. You Can Tell What Type Of Ddr Ram Because It Usally Stated On The Packaging Of The Ram It Usally In Small Print If It Ecc Or Registered Ram Because All Ram Is One Or The Other They Both Will Fit In The Slot, And Work But Will Cause System To Shut Down Or Blue Screen Of Death Or Restart Programs Don't Work Right. Changed Ram First And See What Happen After All You Can Always Bring The Ram Back If It Doesn't Work. Then Next I Would Look At The Video Card Going Bad.

Please give the information DMR asked for in his post and any other error message you see. It's otherwise very difficult to diagnose the problem.

Ok, we checked & this is what we have...

DDR 400 non ECC & my MB is supposed to take DDR 266, so is this going to be an issue?

They want like $200 for a 1GB stick

The problems I have are w/ OE. If I search & find too many different e-mails, it starts to crash & I have to close down ALL the OE windows including search boxes & then restart OE.

It's very annoying & time consuming, especially when I have to search thru local folders which has to search over 12,000 e-mails.

Thanks


Michelle

Outlook express will crash because it a java based program that rely on the ram working correctly.
You can get this ram for $46.50 for 512 mb just get two to make 1gb
here the links.
1.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145024
Here another for $54.00
2. http://www.amamax.com/mmddrc022n184266512.html

Hope this helps.

Hi there,

Thanks for that.

I'll pass this along to my partner, but remember I'm in Canada, not the US & he told me that one company wouldn't even ship to Canada which is nuts IMO.

Have a great day


Michelle

No offence meant here, but all programs use RAM and rely on the physical memory working correctly. This has nothing to do with Java in particular, and additionally, since ep2002 has indicated that the problem is only with OE, that would not point to a problem with RAM in general.


This might shed some light on the real root of the problem though:
If your problems really are only with OE, and you're also asking OE to deal with a very large number of messages, the cause is almost certainly not due to bad or mismatched RAM, but rather the fact that Outlook Express has known limitations in terms of the maximum size of its folders (Inbox, etc.). Iif you have allowed a huge number of emails to pile up in your different OE folders, the program will crash because you've exceeded (or are approaching exceeding) the size limit of those folders. The size limit on OE's files/folders was 2Gig last I checked, and I don't think that has changed recently.