"Chris Stolworthy" wrote in message
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Sounds like ram to me. I had the same problem with my sys when I first
got
it. But I was stubborn, finally got XP installed. Would get random
reboots, ran memtest and Viola TONS of errors. My suggestion would be to
swap ram out with stuff you know to be good and see how it goes.

-Chris



Yeah, that's what I tried, but the RAM in my PC is SDRAM and it seems that
this other RAM is DDR and, so, doesn't fit. I'm going to see if I can get
hold of some tomorrow. I've spent my whole weekend trying to sort this
out - let that be a lesson to not do computing favours for friends.