PFN_LIST_CORRUPT startup loop

[magicdog]

WinXP Pro on a PIV 2.53ghz on an Asus P4S8X-X.

All has been fine for a few weeks and suddenly, from out of nowhere, I get a major system shutdown while surfing.
The whole thing shut itself down and tried to restart.

There was no general power cut.

I'm getting the message in the title and if I choose Safe Mode, it scrolls the beginning of the file list then stops and restarts.

Help!!

[andyms18a]

boot with the winxp cd and chose setup on the first screan the repair on the second

[magicdog]

Thanks for the reply andyms18a.

I tried your suggestion and got a blue screen and the following error message:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

I also had a different one at first:

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT

What now mate?

[andyms18a]

the first thing id check is your ram as IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
is normaly a bad ram error if you have 2 or moor sticks of ram remove one and try a boot you may have to go through the set up aggen if it fails repeat the test with the next ram stick if you only have one stick of ram see if you can get another one

[magicdog]

You're a star mate - I switched the single 512mb DDR RAM strip for another identical one and she fired up!

I have done a repair as you suggested and all seems OK except I've lost my Internet connection (I'm typing this from my old PII).

When I run the Internet setup wizard, it only offers me a broadband connection.
Something is missing in the remote connection manager but I'm not sure how to repair this.

An ideas?

Thanks again.

[andyms18a]

open divice manager and see what it says for your modem it may nead the drivers reinstaling also check the modem is fermley in the pci slot if it an internal modem

[magicdog]

Modem is showing in the Device manager fine and when I query it, it responds correctly.

It seems to be a problem with remote connection manager.

[andyms18a]

do you have an isp setup disk you can try ie freeserv allso try do you have a network card and a home network setup