Question : DOS/4GW error while loading recovery disk

The laptop is an Acer TravelMate 514TXV. While loading the recovery disk the diags run just fine, it's the scan that seems to find an error.  The message I get is DOS/4GW error (2001):  exception 0Dh (general protection fault) at 1D0:  00584627 TSF32:  prev tsf32 5368....Crash address (unrelocated 1:00007627)

Recovery disk includes Windows 98 Second Edition

Answer : DOS/4GW error while loading recovery disk

Test the RAM

If you can swap out the RAM with known good modules for testing first if you can't do that then test the machine with one RAM module at a time until you tested every module. Other wise run the the following RAM testers.
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NOTE IF THIS DOESN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE RAM THIS DOESN'T MEAN THE RAM IS GOOD you would need to swap out the RAM with known good modules for testing. However if it does find something wrong then chances are the RAM is bad.

DocMemory PC RAM
Diagnostic Software
http://www.simmtester.com/PAGE/products/doc/docinfo.asp

or

http://www.memtest86.com/

or

Windows Memory Diagnostic
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

or

GoldMemory
http://www.goldmemory.cz/