Windows Corruption Prob

Nauggie · 9 Mar 2006 at 10:18

Hi not sure which component is faulty so will post here, my specs:

Abit AN8 Ultra
AMD Venice 3200
(2x512) Crucial Ballistix.
80gig Seagate 7200 SATAII (replacement for Maxtor)
500W Enermax Modular

Build was solid for 3 months then I added another 2 modules of RAM to give me 2gig. Got BSODs and windows installation was corrupted. At worst point it would not post - got error code 0.4. I pulled it all out and rebuilt from scratch. It worked. Reinstalled everything:

Ran Prime95 torture test and memtest for 12 hours with no errors. Great!!

BUT.. Booted later on and got 'windows can't load because config file is missing'

I have ran seagate diagnostics and it gave the HDD the all clear but pointed out errors in the file structure.

So why would adding RAM start corrupting my windows install?

Thanks for any ideas

Gun9 · 9 Mar 2006 at 10:33

mmmmmm i woud do a full reinstall of windows,and a bios update.

once you got windows installed get all the updates and install them.

should solve it.

Nauggie · 9 Mar 2006 at 10:38

Hi - yeah done all that. Cleared the CMOS a few times to.

Windows keeps getting corrupted after each clean install.

Dutch Guy · 9 Mar 2006 at 12:07

Could be the Venice not liking four sticks of RAM :confused:

Nauggie · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:28

well when i first got the mobo i had BSODs and ended up reseating the 2 sticks of RAM into different slots which solved it up till now.

This time after installing all 4 sticks and getting BSODs i went back to 2 sticks but the problem did not go away.

I suspect a twitchy mobo.