T42p Recovery

Some software failure made me want to install my T42p, Type: 2373-GTG, with recovery CD-package.
This CD-package contains
IBM Rescue and recovery, CD 1 of 1
CD for Thinkpad R51, T42, T42p Type 1829, 1830, 1831, 1836, 1840 1841 CD 1 to 7 of 7.
I don' understand the type numbers above as I could find some only for R51 model?
Anyway, I started the recovery and the followinfg steps went fine:
Installation of CD 1of 1, manual Boot process
Copying CD 1 to 7 of 7, manual Boot process
DOS window and batch file(s) running
Boot process (without keystroke)
But after booting I get a blue screen "IRQ less or equal ..." and the error page looks like this:
   BCCode : a
   BCP1 F897E234
   BCP2 00000002
   BCP3 00000001
   BCP4: 805111E0
   OSVer: 5_1_2600
   SP: 1_0
   Product 256_1
Did the same several times even after wiping the hard disk drive using <http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html>.
Now what?
Thanks for any help
Michael.
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Thanks for your answer.
I started memtest86+ from <http://www.memtest.org/>; this utility runs ten different tests and this was passed now 5 times without any error.
The Screen looks as follows:
MEMTEST86+ 5.01     INTEL Pentium M proc. 1.80 Ghz
CLK 1798 MHz (32 b Mode)
L1 Cache:     64 K   9515 MB/s
L2 Cache: 2048 K 9515 MB/s
L3 Cache: None
Memory 511 M        747 MB/s
Core #: 0
RAM: 165 MHz (DDR-330) BCLK99
Timings: CAS 2.5-3-3-7 @ 64-bit Mode
The DMI data page looks as follows:
Location   Size [MB]   Speed [MHz]   Type    Form
DIMM 1      512             Unknown         DDR     S0DIMM
DIMM 2     empty
I'm not sure what you mean with "one stick at the time while moving it around through both slots, and then together".

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Welcome to the forum!
Dothan 2.0 CPU that you have in your machine should run nowhere near as hot as what you're decribing, so there's something very wrong there...BTW, T42p was also available with 2.1 and that was really hot...
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