smokey99

Hi Folks,
First time posting, and am in real need of some expert advise.
I have a new PC 4 months old all has been good up til recently
I started to notice that when I had MS picture it open I sometimes got an error about not being able to read or write to a certain ram location.
(thought this was just an old software compatability issue or something)

I am running an AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Asus K8N
512 PC3200 DDR400

Today, this same error began to show on many applications, and got to a point where the machine would not boot, it would get part way through and power down and retry.

I downloaded Windows memory test and ran it.
On the basic tests with cache it failed 5o percent of the time.
Mats+ failed
invc failed
Lrand Failed
Wmats+ failed
Winvc Failed
On the advanced test it seemed to pass.

All the failures seem to be with the cache enabled.

The weird thiing is I can boot in safe mode and seems to run fine.
I am burning backups of files in case.

If the ram was a problem would the system run ok in safe mode?

The reason I suspect possible virus is, is seemed to all crash while at a web site I don't trust.
And the first things that seemed to fail were Norton and My firewall, shortly after I noticed in firewall that (I think it was SVChost) from my machine was connecting out at a huge rate, when I didn't think there was any reason for anything to be going out.
I stopped all traffic

Any suggestions?
I have ran a complete scan with norton (I don't trust) with up to date defs.
Found nothing.

I need my PC for work and have an update to do tomorrow for a client, So I need to get this solved, any suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks
Smokey