Jeremy's Life :: IT

The quest to be a better Systems Engineer.

6/17/08

Bad ECC RAM

Windows 2003 wouldn't boot on a client's server, claiming that it's SYSTEM registry hive was corrupt.  Strangely, not only was I unable to boot from the HD, I couldn't get any of my bootable CDs to work either!  I even tried a different CD drive.  The culprit?  A bad RAM module.  The registry and my bootable CDs were just fine.
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