Virtual Memory is around 768mb's or something like that when I looked it up this morning. Well: I've been running memtest (http://www.memtest86.com/) and it's come back with four errors so far: Memtest is still running on it's second run, but it'a already found 4 errors: [code] tst pass failing address Good Bad Err-Bits Count 5 0 0000000bfc8 -0.6MB 00400200 00400000 00000200 1 5 0 0000005b4b0 -0.6MB 00400200 00400000 00000200 1 5 1 00000022108 -0.1MB 00010200 00010000 00000200 1 5 1 000000715f0 -0.1MB 00010200 00010000 00000200 1 [/code] Process of Hardware install: Bought the new gear, bought Windows XP. downloaded and installed a new bios from Asus. use my win-me boot floppy to destroy the partitions on my 20gb hard drive. Put in Windows XP pro CD (full copy, not upgrade - student discounts are great S.F. State sells it for $85 after tax) and let it creat two partitions of 10gb each. Formatted primary partition as NTFS and installed Windows XP. Once the install was done I had it format the second partition as NTFS. Then I installed Norton System works 2003, and ran live update several times until it told me there were no more updates. At this point I inserted my 80GB drive into the system. I had Norton fully optomize all three drives, scan the system for any errors, and so on. Then I tried to open my existing copy of Power that was on the 80gb drive (G:). It opened, and I played around for a bit just fine until I decided I wanted to put some clothing on Vicky... The specific item I tried to dress her in was: (searching... what was that called again?...) The Napkin Top tararu has here: http://www.jet.ne.jp/~m-jacky/main.htm Studio Maya Twin Tail (http://digitalcrafts.e.fiw-web.net/1download/wig3/wig4.html) Items I've used before with success. After putting on the clothes, I usually freeze within one to five minutes. After doing such things as conforming, test rendering, tweaking morph dials, texturing, and so on. At some point in the near future, I will get a crash. After my last post in here and just before going after memtest I got a freeze from loading up ACDsee (an image browser with slideshows) and trying to start a slideshow of my image directories - which total around 500mb's to 1gb or so... On running memtest, it froze on the first run of that during test five of ten. This is an application that runs from a floppy-boot without the OS or anything else loaded. Test five is the same test that on the second run of memtest gave the above errors. So I'll be off buying new memory this coming monday - my current chip was bought by someone else, and I need him on hand to get the refund...

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