WINDOWS error while installing new RAM?

[RockyZ]

Just bought some OCZ PC4000 ram from Aspire.Comptech. It worked fine on his rig but when I tried to put it in mine, wiindows does not boot normally and instead I get this screen telling me one of my System files are corrupted. It also tells me to try to repair this file. When I boot the machine with the windows disk, the windows boot thingy never fully loads. I swap back my old ram, everything is fine, and I also tried putting my windows disk in when I used my old ram and the windows boot disk, loads fine.

Should I try repairing windows with my old ram and see if windows will boot with the new ram? Will repairing windows mess up any of my current files?

 

[Tyler1989]

try installing linux with your new ram I'm currious to see if linux will set any as bad blocks and ignore them a feature windows currently doesn't have.

 

[RockyZ]

Hmm, I might try that but I don't have any room left in this HD and I don't got any spare harddrives that doesn't contain important files.

 

[Nitestick]

and here i thought i was crazy using memtest :/

 

[RockyZ]

Alright, Linux is pretty much out of the question.

I forgot where I put my copy of memtest, might try that.

I tried plugging the ram one stick at a time. One ram seems to run fine and the other seems to have problems.

Might send this back to OCZ for a new pair of ram. I don't think it takes another test to prove that its faulty.

 

[Tyler1989]

d'oh memtest is the answer...

 

[Nitestick]

what distro of linux you trying? i know FC4 has memtest on the first cd ISO