Well, I have ran memtest before (back in the days of Ubuntu 9.10 I guess, when it still had it at the boot screen), and let it work for a whole afternoon, but there were no red sectors anywhere on the memory map (note that there were problems with my computer before and after that as well). I dunno what might be the problem. The RAM wasn't removed ever since it was plugged in, around in 2004 (I had a 256 MB RAM to start with, but later it was replaced with a single half gigabytes one). Besides, it's funny that two very different OSs, like Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP would produce similar problems - at least, Linux seems to have just as much bugs as Windows does...
Damn Small Linux: It looks nice and everything while running from CD, but the mouse doesn't work, and I couldn't find a fix yet.
EDIT: Cleaned RAM and placed it into another slot, awaiting results.
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Last edited by Tracker; 16-08-2011 at 04:13 PM.
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