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Story of that motherboard/memory combo I talked about:
A friend bought a brand new MSI motherboard with a VIA PT800 chipset (not bad, but I prefer Intel chipsets), along with a single 512 MB DDR400 module (should've got 2x256 modules, but whatever). We spend one whole day repeatedly trying to install Windows XP on the damn machine, but it took forever. The "39 minutes to go" took some 4 hours to complete. The strange thing was that when we put in one of my memory modules, we were finally able to finish the install. In the end, we had a relatively fast machine, but it was unstable as hell. A few days later, the friend brought his hardware back to the store, and got a replacement mobo and memory (2 x 256 this time). He hasn't had a problem since. The people at the shop thought the mobo was damaged, but one cannot be sure in this case...
Hope this helps someone, somewhere in some weird way.
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