Well Tac I'm working on the assumption that ram is at fault and leave it to the shop to sort out, not using main pc now, have disconnected.

Fired up my old steam driven pc.

Yes MemTest has run for 300% and has picked up three errors, so it goes back to the shop (AGAIN ) I guess

Thanks Tac & guys for suggestions, running MemTest now and it picked up this at 40%, so I guess one or both sticks of ram are bad. "Error found with word pair#15024042 or 15023514 (either could be the source)" As I said ram is still under warranty so if it's at fault the shop can deal ...

Found this in relation to above:- "STOP 0x0000008e" error message during Windows XP setup View products that this article applies to. Article ID : 315335 Last Review : May 27, 2004 Revision : 1.0 This article was previously published under Q315335 SYMPTOMS When you install Microsoft Window...

Well after close to 12 hours of sodding around with the peice of crap to no avail, I decided to re-format a simple procedure according to what I have read :!: Cant do it from he existing dektop cuz it says the Windows system on pc is newer than on disk, says re-boot from cd drive, I did and get the ...

The defrag procedure wasn´t cancelled and ended properly? Is there a way to repeat this procedure? No completed ok. Could probably run it again but analysis takes about an hour, guess another defrag would probably take a day or so. Think something is messed up in operating system, cant get graphics...

If your running XP, use the restore function

Tried to but thaat wont work either Also tried booting from Rom but that creates at setup error

Did a defrag on main drive now Windows takes about 10 mins to boot up Programmes wont initialise, desktop running at minimum setting

Everything is basically a mess

Any suggestion welcomed

Nice pic's M8

Mind you Winston don't look to well

On second thoughts he's been dead 40 odd years

Hosts discretion, not an :FI: issue.

Nice, does it make calls too

Yep adverse to drinking tea

And I have short arms and long pockets

Thus this weekend I'm teetotal

Me I'm teetotal M8

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