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!@#$#$! RAM !

Never. ever buy Corsair "value" RAM; it almost completeley destroyed my wife's laptop. What appeared to be a corruption on the OS (you know, Windows XP still has issues) it turned to be a corrupted RAM module.

It was in fact a bit hard to diagnose at first since the OS booted properly in "safe" mode and the errors when loading in "normal" mode were consistent; the screen freezed always on the same "step".

Gladly, something weird happen between reboots; Dell diagnostics found an error r/w the "RAM"... the actual weird thing is that the test failed only once; once the machine rebooted the RAM test was passing just fine.

Anyway, long story short, the problem was a faulty "value" RAM module from Corsair. I tested the same module on another laptop and the damn thing almost messed up my whole system with corrupted memory that produced buffer overuns and errors in applications that never gave problems before.

Thankfully both laptops are up and running now; with 512 mem less each (since I changed modules so that each laptop had at least 1 Gb) but working :)

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