Motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 (-L) v2.0 (No manual) Ram Slots x 4 DDR DIMM Bus Type DDR SDRAM Memory Speed PC3200 (200mhz) One stick of 512mb installed. Ok I am technically retarded, so I need to check I,m buying 1gb DDR PC3200 • CL=3 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR400 • 2.6V • 128Meg x 64. First qu...

The latest:- Purchased and installed in first slot brand new 256mb stick of ram. 1) Booting from HD- Goes to advanced screen (Boot in Safe Mode, Last known good config, Normal etc) tried all three of these options but it just re-boots back to this same screen again. Havent tried the remaining two op...

Yes thats fine, however as I said in my original post:-

Either your Windows installation was corrupt or you have errors on the HDD that need chkdsk to be run to correct them - otherwise a defrag is simply not capable of causing the trouble you describe. Windows had run quite happily for the last two months of a clean instal, the problem occured after re...

The story:- Firstly I defraged my drive, after the defrag XP Home took about 10mins to boot up, many progs wouldn't function Windows Explorer slow as a snail, although Internet Explorer functioned ok. Tried lots of options to no avail, so decided I would re-install from CD or even re-format if neces...