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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Help, the dog ate my MBR (Linux/Windows dual boot)
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:44:26 +1200
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On 07/23/11 02:25 AM, Noob wrote:
>
> I'm starting to think that this might be a hardware problem,
> as both Linux AND the BIOS seem to have had troubles getting
> the MBR consistently. Something else I haven't mentioned:
> when Windows resumes from hibernation, the whole system
> sometime reboots (this started about 2/3 weeks ago), around
> the same time I changed the RAM from 2x512 to 2x1024.
>
> I tested the RAM, no errors after one hour of checking.
> The S.M.A.R.T. counters for the HDD claim the drive is
> "healthy".

How did you test the RAM, memtest86?  The symptoms do point to a memory 
problem.

If you have several GB of RAM it can take a long time to test.  I'd 
leave it to run over night.

-- 
Ian Collins