Re: FN-FORUM: IT support advice

date posted 23rd January 2006 15:08

A bit of an off chance... but I've had similar problems with machines
built off faulty Windows CDs. I'd try and copy the i386 directory onto
the hard disk and install from that.

On 23 Jan 2006 15:14:25 -0000, Tom Allen [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> The reason I suggested a RAM checkup is because I had problems with my
> other machine with exactly the same symptoms - tried booting up, got
> 'system file missing' messages under Linux, and BSOD under Windows.
> The problem was that the kernel, core files etc were loaded into
> corrupt sectors of the memory, hence errors on reading. Funnily, if i
> left the machine to 'warm up' for a few minutes and reset, I usually
> managed to boot OK. I eventually narrowed it down to one of the 2 RAM
> sticks using Memtest86, and all has been 100% fine since it was
> replaced.
>
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