Originally Posted by manglerbabe

Thanks for the quick response. ^^ While I was waiting I decided to try again and pulled out one of my 512 mem. sticks from an old Compaq computer. I know, taking out 2 gig of memory for a 512 is suicidal. But...it worked. lol I was able to reformat completely and reinstall XP.

Now, to find out which one of the ram sticks is the evil twin. For some reason I was unable to get memtest86+ or Microsoft's memory test to work. :/ Reading through the instructions again to make sure I haven't missed anything. Need to use a CD since a floppy disk drive does not exist on my laptop. lol Any thoughts? -- i believe you got the ISO file for Memtest86+. you first need to extract the ISO file to your Desktop or to a folder. may be you copied the ISO file directly to the blank CD. that would not work. you need Nero or ImgBurn (freeware) to burn the ISO image into a blank CD.