I finally got memtest to run. It's now run for 18 hours without a single
error which rules out the memory stick.

The box is now suffering from hard disk problems - during boot up the drive
light comes on for 30 secs or so before beginning the boot sequence and
occasionally during normal operation (e.g opening IE) the machine freezes
for 30 secs or so before running the program.

This is driving me nuts - any other suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.


"Rich Webb" wrote in message
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:12:45 -0000, "Martin"
wrote:

I can get to the BIOS if I use the TNT2 card - all the others now barf at
the BIOS splash screen.

Incidentally, I tried to burn a DVD this weekend using NERO. All attempts
have failed - the burn succeeds but during the verify the box restarts.

I've used three different media - all with the same result.

Could it be my 512Mb RAM stick that's going bye bye?

Maybe. Download memtest86 or memtest86+ and run it overnight.

http://www.memtest86.com/

http://www.memtest.org/

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Rich Webb Norfolk, VA