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8886 - reboots when loading winxp - blue screens

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6/20/05 at 4:15am
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My battery has been dead for a year or so. Won't last more than 5 minutes. But last week I needed to check my email quickly, so tried to boot on battery, and the computer shutdown while WinXP was loading.

Ok, attach AC cord, start it up again. Uh-oh. It's now running slowly (seeminly whenever it tries to access the harddrive) and won't boot. The normally quick white and black progress bar takes forever. Eventually I get a weird error. If I try safe mode it blue screens. I then use the WinXP CD to do Recovery mode, and there I run CHKDSK /r.

YAY! It found and repaired an error (after a LONG time running) and now I can get back in WinXP....for a few days. Now it's worse! If I start normally it'll blue screen when it's on the low-res WinXP boot-up screen. I can sometimes get in Safe Mode, but usually not for long...1 minute, 5-10 minutes, whatever. It eventually blue screens and reboots. And often if it reboots when I try to start normally, it'll do that whole computer-running-insanely slowly thing with disc errors, and I AGAIN have to do the CHKDSK fix.

So now I don't know what to do? Is this bad memory? A bad harddrive? This is painful...I use my laptop for my work, etc. Suggestions?
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6/21/05 at 8:16pm
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update:

so I think I got it back on its feet. It appears one of the 512 meg RAM modules is busted. I turned on the full mem check in BIOS, and it errored. Removing one of them got rid of the error.

I was HOPING this would fix my problems completely, but it appears that my WinXP install was somehow hopelessly screwed up, perhaps corrupted with the bad memory?

Not sure, but I just did a Recovery Install of WinXP and now it appears to be working again.

Not sure if the battery dying while WinXP was loading had anything to do with the memory frying. Perhaps not. Either way I now need more 512.

So: where does one get another module of 512 for an 8886 on the cheap?
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