On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:14:03 -0500, "Craig"
<caheaton@netzero.net> wrote:

>Thank you to all who offered advice...I think I found the problem (and I got
>lucky, too). Tonight I decided to try some troubleshooting, anticipating a
>long procedure of removing, swapping and replacing hardware. Well, I began
>by removing one of my (3) DIMMS (after letting the computer warm up and
>begin blue screening). Lo and behold, I hit the jackpot on my first try! I
>removed the DIMM and the computer booted just fine. I let it run for a
>couple of hours, including taxing it with DOOM3 and moving some files (did
>these to generate some heat and put a good load on the power supply). All
>remained stable. I put the DIMM back in, rebooted and instant blue screen!
>The memory stick in question is a 1GB DIMM from USModular. Allegedly it has
>a lifetime warranty, but I checked the warranty terms and they dictate that
>it be returned with the original receipt, original package and original
>anti-static bag! (WTF?) I'm going to phone them tomorrow to see how rigid
>this policy is. Computer is running fine now using my remaining memory (a
>pair of 512MB modules). I installed that DIMM almost exactly a year
>ago....interesting that it would fail so suddenly.
> Craig
>


If all you did was remove the one module, it could be the
memory slot instead of the module. You might then try
putting one of the remaining modules in the slot it was in,
and/or putting that one questionable module in alone in a
different slot.