Crashes without any reason

Hello.
I'm having problems with Win XP recently. The applications I've been using, which were always running ok, now crash without any reason.
I'll take few examples.
Firefox - crashes with the error message, sometimes when I run a java application it crashes even without it
Freespace 2,Diablo 2, both old pc games, they crash with an error message, be it unhandled exception c0000003 in D2 or a simple win error message in FS2.

I don't know what could be wrong.
The recent changes in the pc was inserting a new ram ( 512 ), when I had a 256 one.

Any ideas, anyone?

Thanks in advance,
-K


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