Is my AMD processor up the DUFF???

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Wonder if any one can help
Recently i started experienceing segmentation faults on my AMD XP2200 PC within linux (fedora core 1) which progressivilgot worse untill the computer became unuseable to the extent of linux crashing due to kernel panics every boot! Reinstall failed to fix this, and i even resorted to usin windows but to no avail.
The hard drive is fine, but a memtest revealed faults with the memory which i then replaced with some decent Crucial memory (pc2100 - 128mb), this has again failed to fix the problem, but further memtesting has revealed that this might be as a result of the L1 cache. If this is a likely cause of my problems what do i need to replace, as i dont want to end up replaceing unnessisary items, my bank balance cant cope as it is!

base spec as follows
ASUS A7V8X-X M/board (via chipset)
AMD xp2200
1 single pc2100 128mb in slot 0
ATi Radeon 9200se 128mb g/card

Any help would be grately appreciated :-D

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humm... I have a  look at the cooling, perhapse the compound burnt off?, what i cant understand is why it happend, i hadnt added any new hardware, or made any major changes in terms of layout since i built it a last year!

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thanx for the advice guys il give ur suggestions a try!

BTW worst case senario and the L1 cache is fried, what do i replace, i presume the processor?