Bad Motherboard?

[dailey]

I have Jetway 867AS Motherboard with an AMD Athlon XP1600 running Windows XP Home. I have had this computer for 2 years and have had very few problems. About a month ago I started having data corruption and applications started crashing. I kept running check disk to fix the problems but they kept coming up. I reinstalled Windows without any problems but the same problems came back. I downloaded the diagnostic tool for my hard drive but it found no problems. It is a samsung sv4002h. I replaced the power supply but couldn't get into Windows. It would just keep restarting. So I attempted to reinstall Windows again and it stops in the middle every time. So now I am wondering if it may be a bad motherboard. It also has a Geoforce 2 MX 400 and 256 Mb PC 2100.

[pointone]

I'd rule out the hard drive for sure, first; those diagnostics sometimes miss things. Try another hard drive in the system, or try the hard drive in another system. It would be much easier to replace the hard drive than the motherboard.

[david eaton]

It could also be caused by faulty RAM. Download memtest from here (http://www.memtest.org/)
Choose the bootable version, and use it to make a bootable floppy. run the test, and see what it shows.
New memory is likely to be cheaper than a new motherboard!

[dailey]

Thanks for the ideas. I will try both.

[dailey]

I found out it was a bad stick of ram. Memtest found about 18 million errors.
I had used another test but it passed without any errors. Thanks for all the help.