My new PC has died after a day of use HELP !!

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Just bought a new PC. Specs:
AMD 64 3000 s939 Venice
Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 NF4 s939
256Mb Sapphire ATI X1600PRO
1GB Corsair Value Select
Aspire X-Qpack
160 Gb Hitachi sata2 Hdd

It ran first time, and I got a day of gaming out of it, but whilst in counterstike it restarted on its own. It came up with the menu to select "safe mode" , "normal mode" etc, I selected normal mode and it kept restarting over and over again.

After another attempt later on I got back to the screen and selected safe mode, which sent me to a blue screen of death and an error:

PFN-LIST-CORRUPT

I have managed to get to windows once when selecting "last known good config" but the screen kept flickering, and i got windows errors, ati errors and sound errors popping up so I shut it down.

I decided to reformat and install windows again but its not copying the files over properly..coming up with error.

So does anyone have any ideas? Is the harddrive dead perhaps even though it worked fine before?

Any help would be great. Thank you.

 

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The specs in my sig are from my main PC, with 2x 512 and 2x 256 (despite what a lot of people say, it does run in dual channel.)

This isn't the first time after booting with new hardware. The whole PC is new hardware yesterday, with Corsair Value RAM, but it has been booted several times with it previously.

I am installing Windows with a different stick of RAM now. I have just set up the partitions, so it is copying files over now. I will keep you updated.

Edit: It has got further than before, I am now on the windows bit of the installation. It is in Windows now.

 

[Trifid]

OK its working with this different RAM, does this mean I need to return the RAM? Should I perhaps put the corsair stuff back in to make sure it is definately broken?

 

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I used 1x 256mb in dimm2. Does memtest go on cd as bootable?