Has anyone heard of new memory causing this error? It sounds like it's the kind of thing a corrupted hard disk or bad install of Windows would cause - not RAM. If you've read my other topics here, you know I'm trying to get a 2005 Dell Optiplex GX280 up to speed to be my parents' primary PC. Today I put in a Nvidia Geforce GT 430, which is working out to be a great improvement over the Intel GMA and went fine - and some RAM, which I think may have jacked it up.
The machine previously had a single 512MB DDR2 400mhz stick, which I yanked out and replaced with two 1GB DDR 533mhz sticks. I had it set up single channel at first, went into the BIOS and saw the system recognized the 533mhz speed and the full 2gb of memory. Looked good to go, I exited and continued bootup - midway trough the Windows XP booting screen I got a BSOD telling me unmountable boot volume. Thinking it was a fluke I rebooted, same thing. I put the ram in again as dual channel, same thing.
Frustrated, I went upstairs to do some research, then came back to find the PC booted into Windows just fine, seeing all the memory, etc. A few more reboots and it all seemed fine. Then another reboot gave the same error.
Any idea why this may be happening?
Windows XP SP3
A08 rev (latest one) of the machine specific version of Phoenix BIOS
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