Glad you found the problem, it took me almost two months and about a dozen attempts to install seven or eight different distributions before I found my bad stick of RAM. Think I said just about the same things you did, in triplicate! Randy Clarksean writes: > Just a follow-up to let everyone know the outcome to this problem. > > Two bad sticks of RAM! System would boot, do its own check, report 2GB, and > then continue on startup ... why RH8 installed I have no idea. I booted with > Knoppix and ran memtest ... within a few seconds errors started jumping out > at me ... some fun ehhh? > > So ... all I have to say is *&$( @#(*) *#&@#)! ... more than a time or two > .. grrrr. > > Fedora Core 3 is on the system ... it is running fine ... all updates have > been downloaded and installed. Hell of a deal isn't it? :-) >