"Cyde Weys" <cydeweys@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1129410518.445581.164210@g49g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> So my computer's running fine, and BAM, it suddenly becomes
> nonfunctional. It repeatedly insta-reboots from inside Windows.
> Windows will start successfully, but try using it for a minute or two
> and the insta-reboot occurs. I figured maybe it's a problem with
> Windows, so I tried my Gentoo Linux LiveCD ... not working either. The
> computer boots fine and even sometimes gets the kernel booted, but it
> quickly freezes after that.
>
> So I'm thinking it may be a hardware problem. I try memtest86 from
> within the Gentoo Linux LiveCD. I get millions of errors. At this
> point I should probably mention that my memory consists of 2X Crucial
> 512MB DDR 333Mhz CL2.5 and my motherboard is an Asus A7N8X-X. So I
> think one of my memory modules may be bad, so I try running with just
> one. I get the errors in memtest. I try running it with just the
> other memory module installed. I get the same errors in memtest:
> specifically, the Err-Bits seem always to be 00ff0000.
>
> Is it possible for two memory modules to both go bad simultaneously and
> in the same fashion? I think it may be *possible*, but it's not
> exactly probable. So what could be the problem then? Is my
> motherboard borked?

Bad slot maybe. Possibly, power supply voltage not within
tolerance.

-- Bob Day
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