OT: Bad HD or bad RAM? - bad RAM!

[Nigel Ridley]

For the last few weeks I have been trying to install 8.10 on my daughter's PIII. I had already 
added an extra stick of 256 MB RAM and was ready for a nice easy install....
Every time I tried it would get stuck fairly early on with a nice red screen and an error message 
about a bat file on the CD. No problen burn another CD... OK try a different CD brand..... OK try 
a different hard drive (this one probably has some badblocks)... OK try another hard drive, this 
one is old and that is why the install gets stuck. I know I will repartition and not use the 
first couple of gigabytes where the 'problem' is... OK I'll try another hard drive.... ENOUGH 
already! I'' just use a live CD for just now - Slax seems quite nice and light -- what's that 
option on the boot menu? Memtest? Nah it couldn't possibly be the memory..........


Blessings,

Nigel

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