Sorry to bring this up again, but I'm at the end of my tether.

I got two new sticks of 512MB PC2700 RAM last night. I slapped the two of them in there and ran memtest. I came back later and had errors up the wazoo!

So to be safe, I tried testing the individual sticks in the first slot. I received absolutely no errors from either stick. Tonight I will test both of them in the second slot, to see if that's what is doing it. I have a few questions, though:

1) what are the possibilities that the problem is the motherboard versus a conflict between the two sticks of RAM?

2) is it possible that the second memory slot is causing the problem? can that kinda thing be isolated to one slot? For instance, if the third slot has no problems, can I just put the two sticks in the first and third slots instead and run like that?

3) about the RAM its self. the chips on it say Samsung. I ordered Corsair memory. Is this correct?

Honestly, if the problem is with the motherboard, and it's only the second memory slot that has problems, and it will work fine with the setup I mentioned in #2, I'm willing to live with that. I don't think I'll need more than 2GB of memory before this machine is obsolete anyway...

Thanks for any help you can give me...