PC is hanging on Bios screen

Just recently started having a weird problem that just goes away again for a while.
On power-up the computer hangs on the Bios black screen with just AMD Athlon 1700 detected.
TheD-bracket lights are 1 & 3 red indicating "Testing base and extended memory"
I have 2 x 256MB DDR and I treid moving them from 1 & 2 slots to 1 & 3 and 2 & 3. One way caused a blue screen APIC error and the other config caused corrupted grahics straight away.
Any ideas anyone?
As I said it does 'go away' but I wonder if it will become terminal.
Cheers

I was just about to post on this very same issue. I took the above advise and ran memtest but it found no errors.
I have the same ram (crucial 2x256)
Antec PP-303xp (300 watt psu)
bios 2.4
maybe finding common ground can help
My list to do includes upgrading to bios 2.6, and playing with the slots of the ram. I already reseeded the ram.

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