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Computer troubles... agh

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mauvro

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Sorry if this isn't the greatest post, I am completely stressed from a day of failed computer troubleshooting...

Specs:
Asus A7M-266
1.4 Thunderbird
512 ddr 2100 crucial
geforce 3
sblive 5.1
enermax 350w powersupply

I was playing some SWG when I noticed some weird "artifacts" on screen, like the image was being torn apart. Then my system went *poof* and rebooted on its own.

When I tried to load up SWG again, another *poof*, reboot. I think it did that one more time, then scan disc started coming up and reported it had fixed some files and what not.

Apparently it didn't fix everything since my computer proceeded to randomly reboot on its own out of nowhere.

After multiple check discs and "repairs" windows finally ran again. I figured my HD was completely fucked so I tried to copy and paste important files to my other hard drive. The second I clicked paste the computer rebooted once again.

I took the HD out, went to best buy, and got myself a new maxtor to get revenge on western digital. The maxtor seemed to be installing win XP pro just fine, when out of nowhere... I get a blue screen message saying:

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

blah blah blah

Technical information:

STOP: 0x00000008E blah blah

win32k.sys -address blah blah numbers

beginning dump of physical memory
physical memory dump complete"

I tried installing win2k instead, also giving similar messages.

So, if it isn't my HD, what is it? Help...
 
Ok I read about this memtest86 program and booted it up off a floppy.... currently it's stuck at 88% on test2.... the number of errors is at 34k and rising every moment... so... does that answer my question, is my ram fu**ed?
 
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