MEGA 651 problems-Help!

MEGA 651(Purchased 20th July 2004)
512Mb DDR 3200RAM
2.4Gig Celeron processor
Seagate 7200 120GB HArddisk
Leadtek A180 128MB DDR Grapics Card
Sony CD Witer
Window XP Home Edition.
I have several problems with it-
If I select anything other than safe mod in the BIOS it will not start up.
It intermitantly give me a BIOS Checksum Error, and I have to reset the Bios to make it boot.
Every time it Boots it sendsa 'This system has recovered from a serious error message to Microsoft'
It is generally very slow and applications keep 'hanging' which forces me to use task manage
I have flashed the BIOS with the latest code to try to resolve the issues, but to no avail.
Does anyone have any thoughts??? Please help is getting silly now!
Ta
Charlie

sorry i misread your original post - yes it does sound like memory issue, and i think we've seen something like this before
suggestion:
In BIOS menu,
under Advanced Chipset > Advanced DRAM Control
set System Performance to Normal
under Frequency/Voltage control
set DRAM frequency to 333MHz (speed of PC2700)
this should force the system to operate the memory at PC2700 speed, and hopefully will cure the problem - as the memory clock is operating at the same speed as the cpu fsb, which is the most stable condition
let us know how you get on - if that doesn't work, I would recommend getting a PC2700 stick of ram thats NOT corsair, i seem to remember some other users having problems with this brand - i'm using crucial pc2700 and thats fine (runs System Performance at Fast!)

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