Quote Originally Posted by Zerg View Post
No I can't think of any problems be for now really it boots quite fast still.
Hrmm... might not be HDD then. In my experience, those tend to start going gradually before popping, though a sudden problem isn't unheard of. Plus, 2.5 years is still a bit young for a HDD to die.

My mobo is a FOXCONN 946GZ7MA-1.18KRS2H. It looks like I have two sticks of 1 gig ram as I have 2 gig total.
That mobo takes DDR2 533/667, in either 1gb or 2gb strips. That stuff is relatively cheap these days. If it's just one of your RAM strips that is going bad, you can replace it for about $25 USD. 533 prices/667 prices. If you wanted to upgrade to 4gb total, you'd have to swap out both strips, for a general cost of about $100 USD.

However, before you spend any money, you should check to be sure that's the actual problem. I would recommend running Memtest86+ or a similar memory checker to confirm that you've got a bad stick.