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[bzarcher]

I am going to (very, very, very cautiously) predict that I may have found a very little detail that might just have solved the problem.

You see, the AGP slot on my board has one of those push-down to lock latches for the card. It happens to be right below DIMM0, where my memory resides.

After the memory test didn't show anything obvious, Jeremy G. suggested I try reseating the memory in case something got loose when I installed the AGP card.

So far, I've been up for a half an hour with no problems, and I'm crossing my fingers. If this does it, it means the video card was the only real problem, and I bought myself my own trouble for the rest, but it's okay, because I probably needed the wipe/reinstall anyhow.

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[degraine.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...just reading your description there, another potential cause occurs to me. Could the heat from your video card be overheating the memory chip and causing the computer to glitch and go insane? An unlikely possibility, I know, but that's what inexplicable problems (especially with computers!) are all about.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

It shouldn't, especially since the heat sinks and such are arranged to draw heat away from the memory area, but I wouldn't entirely be surprised.

As it is, the DIMM is now as far from the card as I can make it, and it seems stable, so cross fingers.