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i was running memtest86 and got the message that it was stopping because the 'mcb chain is corrupted' can anyone point me in the right direction?

MCBs (memory control blocks) are paragraph-sized areas of memory,
which are each devoted to keeping track of one particular area of allocated memory.
When a section of memory is requested, a MCB is created.
When a second section of memory is requested, another MCB is created.
These MCBs are chained together to keep track of these chunks of allocated memory.
If any of the MCBs get corrupted or loose track of their allocated memory,
then the whole chain becomes corrupted and the allocated memory can not be read.

it might be a silly question but how do i sort it?

If memtest86 reports the same error over and over again
then the only way to resolve it is to replace the the RAM stick.

thanks gecko, i've had a couple of technicians tell me it's the hard drive and some said it's the memory, i can't afford to have it tested so it might be time to bin it, i've only had it 18 months!