I cant burn this onto a CD is there anyway to get it to come on at the start like it says it needs?

Floppy.

i cant burn this onto a cd, anyway i can make it run from daemon tools or something?

but anyway, it seems in my little mind that the pc should run with just the new ram inside it anyway, why do you think it is freezing up?

You can run MemTest from a floppy disk.

It runs outside of windows. It is a bootable diagnostic.

If the RAM is faulty then that would be why the computer is not working properly.

no floppy disk drive, how do i tell memtest to start outside windows from within windows then?
im starting to think it must be the ram
i might just give up and buy some 200mhz ram instead

thanks for all the help mate

MemTest will only run off a boot disk.

Get a friend to burn it for you.

okay last question i SWEAR
would my pc run 400mhz ram?

PC3200 (200MHz) aka PC3200 DDR400

Just like your 256 stick.

DDR (double 200MHz) 400