Computer Stuffed 2

I have posted about this before and tried all of the suggestions but i still have no luck.

Here are the sysmptoms, my computer continually breaks-down and up untill today it was frequent at aabout every two weeks it breaks down. However today it stuffed up after just one day. Here are my computers Specs.
Athlon 1.4Ghz
Asus A7M266 Motherboard.
256 MB Hyundai PC-1600 DDR Ram.
Hercules Dynamite TNT2 Ultra Vid/Card.
On-Baord Sound.
Has network card but don't know which brand.

The errors which i recieved up untill today were as follows, one time when i tuned my computer on, it said that i had a error on line 1 of my config.sys, so I edited that and when it loaded windows all of my files were corrupt and lost. Twice when i get into windows any application it tries to load brings up a kernell32 error, even trying to load the little speaker at start-up does this. Another time, a game of counter-strike locked up i restarted my computer and it wouldn't load windows, when i booted in dos i only had 3 files on the hdd, and a dos scandisk said that i have 8GB of lost clusters.

The most recent error occurs straight after my windows background appears, it brings up a kernell32 error before it tries to open up any other programs and will not continue it does this in safe mode also.

Some people have said it is a virus in my boot-sector, so i have done virus scans with Norton and nothing is found, i did a low-level format and that did nothing so i am wiping out the chance of it being a virus i think. It must be something else.

Someone out there must know what is wrong with my computer.

Psyclone

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Hi,
I'm running it at 133, i know pc-1600 ram is 100 only, however when i bought it they said that it was pc-2100, when i rand them to find out about it because at startup it says pc-1600, they said that was normal.


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>because at startup it says pc-1600, they said that was normal

Its NOT. Well, if you run it at 133, its not normal you get PC1600 reading from your bios.. If its really PC1600, you should definatly NOT run it at 133.. try running your fsb and memory clock at 100 Mhz, and see if the problem remains.

---- Owner of the only Dell computer with an AMD chip

I just checked the sticker opn the RAM and even it reads: -
"Hyundai Korea 01"
"PC2100-U25330"
"HYMD1326458-H AA"
"256MB DDR 266MHz CL2.5"

Therefore if this RAM really is pC-1600/pc-100 would the place where i bought it from have changed the sticker or cold it be a mistake by hyundai

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The individual numbers are like the one listed below.

"Hyundai 122A"
"HY5DU28822T-H"
"KOREA"

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I was hoping to identify the speed of your memory by finding the speed of the individual chips but I don't know how to decode the Hyundai part number. I'm pretty sure the "-H" in "HY5DU28822T-H" is the speed code but who knows what it means.

Would you like a Quarter Pounder?
No, thank you. Just give me the BIG heatsink. It's an Athlon.

phsstpok, I am offended by your signature. Please change it


Crash I think you're grasping at straws, but I'd believe you over most other people around here...



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That's what I was thinking. However, I did a net search on the part number HY5..-H, whatever it was, and a bunch of PC2100 sales links popped up. I could not find any authoritative answers.

Would you like a Quarter Pounder?
No, thank you. Just give me the BIG heatsink. It's an Athlon.

windows... evil... corrupts... hard drive... mmm

if in doubt blame microsoft...

to me none of that sounds like a ram issue. i've had issues with master boot reccords (MBR) before that have produced simmilar problems. a corrupt mbr could screw with your file allocation tables and possibly give you the errors you're seeing. did you do a fresh install of your os, or did you install over another? particularly...did you install 98 over 95 and switch to fat32? you didn't list your hd but if it was boxed it might have some utility on the install disk for mbr recovery or something like that. i think western digital does, not sure about maxtor or others.

"no vesige of a begining, no prospect of an end, when we all disenigrate, it'll all happpen again."

HDD model number is:

ST330630A;
lots of info at www.seagate.com if it helps any of you to help me.

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I think you must have mis-understood me. I have allready done the low-level format to see if that fixed it.

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