On 7 June 2005 at 10:29, Paul Winkler <pw_lists at slinkp.com> wrote: > Bad RAM can misleadingly look like disk problems. Happened to me once. Yes. Step #1, reseat the RAM. Step #2 let 'memtest86' have a shot at finding bad RAM; that might take a few days, depending on your system speed and RAM size. -- Kevin