That is a possibility that I really don't like ;-(. What did you do? Dump the motherboard? Or is there a solution? Can remeber to have read from a feller who excluded bad segments of ram. Could I exclude faulty address from my memory if there would be a fault with the slot. I would rather have a defect in my swap ;-). Pr>Alle 08:34, sabato 31 agosto 2002, Constant Brouerius Pr>van Nidek ha scritto: Pr>> This morning I found time to swap the two memory Pr>sticks Pr>> which did not so;ve the problem. From a friend I just Pr>got Pr>> one 128 Mb stick which he said was okay and I got the Pr>same Pr>> result. Pr>> So right now I assume that my swap area is corrupted. Pr>> How do I check and repair that. Also with fcheck? Pr>There is another chance: the slot of your ram is broken Pr>for example (it Pr>happened to me one year ago). Pr>I tested my ram and there were some errors in the < Pr>256Mbyte area. Then I Pr>swapped the memory sticks and the errors were still in Pr>the < 256Mbyte area. Pr>Praise Pr>-- -- " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.