HELP! System keeps locking up

[John Aldrich]

Quoting bc98kinney <bc98kinney at yahoo.com>:

> Lockups can come from bad memory, so I would recommend you run   
> memtest86 before anything else. Sometimes you have to let it go for   
> a couple days before it finds anything.  A non destructive drive   
> test like DFT wouldn't be a bad idea either. 
>
>
Thanks. Asked on a local geek list and they suggested Memtest86 as  
well. :) Another "old geek" suggestion was to power down, and clean  
the connector edges with a pencil eraser. Think I'll try that as well.