Could be failing capacitors. I've seen motherboards having most of those simptoms due to the capacitors going bye bye.

One of them was a k7t pro from DFI, and another was an Abit (don't remember the exact model).

ok, new development... got another bsod, this time a 'PFN_LIST_CORRUPT'.

apparently that's a memory error, and i still every so often get a memory corruption error and a boot from some hlds servers.

i hate computers :(

If you have another board to test that memory in I would do so. It would tell you if the problem is the memory or the board itself. I'm of the educated opinion that your board is screwing up in the northbridge. Why that is happening is neither here nor there, but I would guess that you are having northbridge problems. I've been there before.

damn... well, i should be able to rma it. i used the memtest program, let it run through a full cycle, and nothing found in the run. i would *think* that if the memory itself were bad, that program would pick it up.

i think a mainboard issue could explain the problem i've been having.

i'm planning on building a new system after i get a couple checks from my current contract, but that will probably be about a month. i could test the ram in the new board. i was actually thinking of putting this ram in the new box, and getting the new kingston hyperx ddr400 pc3500 3x256mb for this box.

i suppose since it's 2 dimms, i could pull one out, see if i still have problems, then pull the other out. i should try that...

man, if my system goes down before i get the new box, imma be in a world of hurt :(

just got finished with a clean reinstall. it's not software-oriented, that i can tell :(

clean install, with just the crap i need. all the updates i could find. still does it.

i pulled the machine apart somewhat and swapped the slots for the memory (i'm pretty sure they're swapped, but i may have mixed it up).

anyways, guess i'll have to wait until i get the new machine to sort this out :(

Hello out there...
I hear you're having a problem with system crashes. I, in my capacity as a sometime PC tech will say, Check all the hardware, cabling included. Recently I had a win2K install(SP3) that kept crashing daily. I reinstalled twice, thinking it to be software forgetting my own rule, that hardware can go bad for no particular reason at all. When I tore the machine apart, I found a SCSI-3 cable that was pinched. The system drive was SCSI-3. really fast, supposedly reliable. I replaced the cable, and all my problems went away. My advice is to trade out cables and such.