tanwk

Hi,

Thank you for taking time reading this post

I need some expert advice from you as I need to confirm as I am running out of ideas what causes the real problem.

Below is my current spec
- Asus P4R800-V Deluex
- Intel 3.0 GHz CPU
- Kingston 512MB X2 (KVR400X64C3A/512) and 1GB X 2 (KVR400X64C3A/1G) total 3GB
- In fact earlry i put 4 X 1GB KVR400X64C3A/1G inside the system found the system will only pick up reading of 3GB memory
- at a even earlier stage I was using 4 X KVR400X64C3A/512 512MB ram but need more ram as I run Virtual PC application within the XP.
- 2 X 200GB IDE on the IDE raid channel
- common brand cd-rom drive , floppy drive
- XP Pro with service pack 2 applied and Norton Anti-Virus v9.0



Problem I am facing is that my system will runs well for a week+ or so and then out of the blue when system is starting up the XP will fails to load.

Is flag out invaild boot.ini


I actually took out one of the IDE raid drive and connects via external USB to look at the files. Surprisng the boot.ini is there however is consider corrupted and cannot be replace by deleting as i does not allow me to change the attrib of the boot.ini .

I attempt to do a repair using XP CD-rom.
press F6 to start up , load in the raid driver and came to the repir menu.
however when selecting the repair at the revovery console it prompt be that I could not repair. command i run is chkdsk c: /p /r

Any expert have any idea?
I even download the latest raid drive and chipsets available to patch but it will last me only 1 week or so before it rehappens again.

Someone mention to me could be the memory ram I use PC3200 is not compatibable however I need to have concrete proof to ensure is the ram that is causing the trouble.

currently channel 1 2 X 512MB KVR400X64C3A/512)
channel 2 2 X 1GB (KVR400X64C3A/1G) Total 3GB of Kingston ram

Also any possible solution as I need to have at least 3 or even 4 GB of memory ram to run on this systemboard


Many thanks
Thomas