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Message: [QUOTE="ryan.d.rembaum, post: 10865318"] I have been having computer trouble (see below) and the first thing I found during my tests was that memtest86 reports me as having only 1023 megs of ram. I have always noticed that during boot-up the memory test sort of goes normal speed to 1023 then sort of rolls as an afterthought to 1024, but since it passed the boot-up test I figured that was okay. I did find it weird that memtest reported 1023 though. Is this normal? Also, what prompted the tests was that I have a fairly new computer and the hard drive has crashed twice this year. The most recent time the entire disk reported having cross-linked files. I lost everything on it, and had to reformat it. I ran a disk scan utility to see if the drive was defective (I had a hardware error reported during logoff right before the data loss - when I rebooted everything was lost and scandisk basically went sector by sector repairing cross-linked files) and it reports that there is no problem. I was dealing with very large amounts of data right before the second, cross-linked issue occured. I have read that perhaps the motherboard timing could be off (Would overclocking cause cross-linked files...how would I even play with the timing). Is there anyway to test whether this is the issue? Should I trust the harddrive test? Any idea as to the cause? Thanks! [/QUOTE]