Hey, I just started having this same problem about a week ago. In my case, I experienced my hard drive making funky noises before I went to bed and when I woke up, I looked at the screen and it said Disk Read Error and that I should hit Ctrl, Alt, Delete to restart.. so I restarted and when it started loading Windows XP it poped up the same message you got, only mine said 447K instead of your 511K. At first I thought my hard drive died or was in the process of dieing.. so I went online and bought a new hard drive.. a couple days ago the hard drive came, I poped it in as a single drive to install windows onto, and if I didn't have "quick boot" in my CMOS it would still give me the error when it tried to run off of the CD (and of course nothing would happen if I didn't have the CD in since it is a new hard drive that is not formatted). If I have "Quick boot" on in my CMOS setup it does load the CD, but I have not tried installing Windows XP on it yet. from what I read on the net so far, I need to get into the autoexec.bat or system.ini, and also heard something about either a Kernel file or kernel drive.. not sure (kept getting my research interupted by dad trying to use my backup computer), but also have no way on accessing those files it seems.. I tried that NTFS4DOS program and figured out that there is a program to let you read the files in the other drieves. I can't remember the specific name of the file, but it is the only one ending with .COM. When I got in by doing that, I couldn't edit the autoexec.bat or system.ini (I believe the command is "edit autoexec.bat" isn't it?)

Ooh, I forgot to mention that I flashed my bios to see if that would fix it (and also to see if it would detect all 200 gigs of the new hard drive). it didn't fix the low memory problem, and I haven't tried the new hard drive with it yet.

I just got an email from one of my tech friends and he says that it usually means that your RAM has gone bad when you get that message.. I'm not sure if it is bad or not, but I don't want to spend $25 to replace my PC133 256 MB chip and then find out that I should have just saved my money for a new motherboard. Any help is welcome, and I hope I helped the original person who started this thread. Thanks, and sorry for the babbling/run-on.

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system stats that this problem is effecting:
Gateway brookings motherboard
BIOS Type: American Megatrends
Chipset: Intel Whitney 82810E rev 3
Superio: Winbond 627F/HF rev 7 found at port 2Eh
CPU Type: Celeron(tm)
CPU Speed: 950 Mhz
CPU Max: 1600 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 512K
Memory Installed: 256 MB
Memory Maximum: 1024 MB