New lockups of trusted Thrunderbird

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Had a stable system, KT133A board (Aopen AK74) with Thunderbird 1.3,
512Mb SDRAM, GeForce3.
Then one day it started giving me problems with my HDD, lots of
errors, problems booting, problems scanning HDD for errors so I
reformatted and re-installed XP. Since then, I can not get through the
XP installation, most of the times it freezes halfway through.
I have started eliminating components, to no avail
- run 1 memory module at a time to eliminate a possible faulty one
- Got all my PCI cards out
- run a old Rage 128 AGP card
- Change IDE cables
- tried different HDDs
- replaced PSU
- Put BIOS on safe settings

My CPU is not overheating, in fact about 8C down on what it used to
run at full charge, so I can't imagine it being the problem. So I am
left with Motherboard or the chance that both RAM modules are bust,
but then I can see that the XP install would always freeze at the same
point.

I am out of ideas, short of buying another MB which I don't want to do
for such an old system, but on the other hand I don't want to ditch
99% of good components either

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!!
 
Raider said:
Had a stable system, KT133A board (Aopen AK74) with Thunderbird 1.3,
512Mb SDRAM, GeForce3.
Then one day it started giving me problems with my HDD, lots of
errors, problems booting, problems scanning HDD for errors so I
reformatted and re-installed XP. Since then, I can not get through the
XP installation, most of the times it freezes halfway through.
I have started eliminating components, to no avail
- run 1 memory module at a time to eliminate a possible faulty one
- Got all my PCI cards out
- run a old Rage 128 AGP card
- Change IDE cables
- tried different HDDs
- replaced PSU
- Put BIOS on safe settings

My CPU is not overheating, in fact about 8C down on what it used to
run at full charge, so I can't imagine it being the problem. So I am
left with Motherboard or the chance that both RAM modules are bust,
but then I can see that the XP install would always freeze at the same
point.

I am out of ideas, short of buying another MB which I don't want to do
for such an old system, but on the other hand I don't want to ditch
99% of good components either

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!!
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Since you mention errors with an XP install, I highly suspect the problem is
memory related. Download Memtest Ver3 from www.memtest86.com and create a
floppy. Test one module of RAM at a time. If you have any errors, especially
at stock speeds, it would be best to swap out the suspect module.
 
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