Quote Originally Posted by nodoz
Thanks for the reply. Well first, I have loaded this into ram before using memtest. Maybe that's different. Secondly, I didn't burn the disk, I bought it ready made, and it does work on other machines.
Memtest doesn't "load this" into ram, memtest runs memtest86 that tests your memory, but has nothing at all to do with loading "this" into RAM.

You didn't answer the all important question #4.

The fact that it works on other systems unfortunately does not mean that it is a reliable burn. In fact, that you bought the disc made "somewhere" make me think it is highly likely that it was burnt fast (the dubious people selling CD's on e-bay, for example, are not likely to burn a CD slowly and reliably, they are more likely to crank out as many an hour as they can). That and the fact that it sounds like the problems seen with an unreliable high speed burn makes me think that is what the problem is. Of course, I have no way to know for sure if that is the problem, I'm just telling you what experience has taught me. It could be something else. If you have a different optical drive that you could boot the disc with I would try that on the same computer; high speed burns tend to be real erratic on what systems drives they will work on. If it fails in the exact same way on another drive then you have more information that would make me doubt my theory (although you don't completely disprove it), if it works with a different drive then you prove my theory.