Windows XP and RAM Problems.

[morriswindgate]

As has been mentioned before a Windows XP install can be a real pain unless it likes the RAM you have installed.
Well recently I was upgrading a hard drive on a machine where nothing else was changing. I was working with a saved image of the C Drive.
THe machine only had 256MB of PC133 and since I had another 256MB stick laying around doing nothing I stuck it in. THe motherboard recognized the added RAM and I proceeded to load the image. After the image load was finished and the computer restarted, it went into an endless sequence of scandisk (trunicating file after file) followed by a reboot with scandisk running again.
I pulled the RAM I added, reinstalled the image and all was well.
So when you have missing files or endless reboots with scandisk during an XP install look at the RAM as the problem.

[Panama Red]

Nice tip, morris. Follows the old troubleshooting rule, look at the last thing changed as the most probably cause of trouble.

[morriswindgate]

After working with XP for sometime now, I have found that a good majority of strange behavior when you are installing or even running XP is RAM related.

[Redo40]

Good info Morris!