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Fixing an old pc - not sure what the issue is

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Atlantean

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I have an old computer with an Asus m2n-sli deluxe and it has been running fine for about 3 years. The processor is an amd x2 3800+, ocz platinum xtc rev 2.0 ddr2 dual channel ram (2gbs), an nvidia 7900 GTO, and there are 5 harddrives of varying sizes ranging from 250gbs to 1tb in the box. Last night I decided to install Ubuntu 9.04 on it so I defrag'd and rebooted. For some reason the disc wouldn't read in the drive so I am leaning towards an issue with the dvd drive, but there could be something else going on. I tried rebooting a few times and windows wouldn't come up, I got 1 long and 2 short beeps which is supposedly a video error so I swapped out the video card and continue to get the same thing. Now when I am trying to boot to windows sometimes the system will get to the point where windows should load before freezing and saying that ntoskrn.exe is missing. I tried booting in safe mode and nothing would come up. The computer then started making beeping noises.

I should also mention that when I put the disc for ubuntu in the disc drive it doesn't work - windows just starts loading then the system crashes. Any ideas for what might be going on? Not sure if this is a hardware or software issue.
 
Could be both hardware and a software problem. I think I would try a different optical drive first and, then go back to basics. Minimal hardware config.

 
Ok so tried a different optical drive... it works well, I loaded up ubuntu and was like hmm might as well run memtest86+, first test is running and so far over 2 million errors... I guess I have figured out the problem, 2 million errors!!! I was wondering what was wrong with the bloody thing. I don't even know how it could have gotten so bad.
 
RAM issue sounds like. I would pull all of the RAM you have and test each one individually. But before you start that process, have you checked the voltages for the RAM, and see if they are receiving the proper voltage?
 
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