"chris" wrote in message
...
I've built a computer with Asrock K7Vt4-4X , Apacer 2100 CL2 256 MB Ram
and
AMD Athlon XP 2600+.

But it crashs somewhere . sometimes during the os intsallation, sometimes
during the booting and sometimes it boots and after one hour it crash
(even
when I do nothing ).

I made a memory test using the included programming with Suse 9.0 DVD. I
made a harddisk test . but everything seemed to be ok.

Someone suggested that the memory may be incompatible with the motherboard
..
Is it right ?


Two things. One: your XP2600+ is probably 333FSB but your memory only
266MHz. Even if the mobo can accommodate that it does frequently cause
problems like yours.
Two: run Memtest86 for a few cycles with different memory settings to check
for memory errors.
http://www.memtest86.com/