LethSquir

Interesting one for me (actually, a friend of mine) was related to memory. He had to spend LITERRALY at least half an hour rebooting his machine to get it to finally boot in to Windows XP. We tried formatting and reinstalling - that worked. For a while. Then problems anew. He had a Seagate HDD, so I downloaded Seagate's diagnositcs. It literally simply asked if we wanted to exchange it because something was wrong. Unfortunately, the warranty was up. So we reformat for the second time, hoping for the best. This was temporary as we wait for his new Hitachi 120GB to show up. It shows, we install it, we put Windows on it. Everything went fine until I installed the video drivers - the whole thing died again. At this point, I'm thinking mobo or grakka. No real way to find out at the time, so we both retire to the living room to sit and wonder about it. I'm sitting for five minutes, pondering away. Then it comes to me. I have a utility for testing RAM. What the hell, it's worth a shot, right? So we start it up. I tell him it takes a few hours to go through it all. We head back to the living room. We're in there for another five minutes or so before my curiosity piques. I head back in. THREE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN ERRORS! We pull the stick out, leaving him with just 256MB. There haven't been any problems since. Other than really slow performance...