I bought some new memory 1Gb PC3200 made by Matrix a week ago and my
computer has suddenly crashed and will now refuse to boot (BSODs).

It crashed at the precise moment I deleted a coded in WinXP so I thought it
was the act of deleting the codec that caused the system to screw up so I
attempted to restore from a Ghost image.

However, each time I booted from the Ghost CD I would eventually just get a
random blue screen. For example the last three I got were:

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
UNKNOWN HARD ERROR (This seems pretty serious where a stop code can not even
be retrieved!)
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

I have now put my old memory back in and can run the Ghost boot disk just
fine.

This is just a bad memory issue? I have already RMA'd the memory but I
thought I'd ask here in case I missed any other possible causes but it does
seem pretty conclusive to me. Has anyone heard of Matrix memory before?

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:47:15 -0000, "elziko"
<elziko@NOTSPAMMINGyahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Show quoteHide quoteSure seems like bad memory.  Generally it's advised to at
LEAST run memtest86 for several hours before ever (not even
for a moment) booting to the OS.  Fortunately you have the
Ghost image, as your OS was probably quite hosed and
unrecoverable without so much work that you'd have been as
well off starting clean, otherwise.

Memory issues are many-fold.  Could be the memory is
defective, more likely marginal, possibly your board isn't
so stable with 1GB modules, or multiple modules including
double-sided, or that the bios simply needed slower (higher
numbered) timings set to attain stability.  In rarer cases
I've even seen memory sold as PC(nnnn) but according to the
chips on the modules (their spec sheets) it would've been
impossible for the memory to be what the seller spec'd.
They had a nifty generic label on it though, so it MUST be
right??  Not.

Matrix though?  Never heard of 'em... suggest buying
name-brand memory from someplace with a good return policy
like Crucial.com, especially with larger modules.
Newegg.com isn't too bad either and you might save a couple
$$, but only if your board happened to run stabily with the
lower-cost modules which aren't specifically guaranteed like
Crucial's are (though Newegg will still accept returns,
"usually" without a restocking fee on something like that
but it's possible you might incur one?

i bought my pc on the 8.1.2005 and two days ago the memory is low i can
hardly work on my pc can you advice me why this is happening and do i have
any warrantys on this matter?
also i lost harddrives and the system is pretty messy.can you help me over
the net for above problems?

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