Hi all at bit tech Here goes..... We have just upgraded 1 of our machines to 1GB RAM which freed up the 256 that was in there, so the bosss told me to put it in another machine that only had 512 to make a total 768MB (pretty straight forward you would think!!) now the 768 PC wont boot, with any combination of memory, it keeps getting to the point where it should switch to the log on panel then freezes. So i tried a windows repair.... now ot will go through the loading then switch to a 'set up is restarting' screen - then to a blue welcome to windows (like you get when you first install) then will hang (only displaying half of the blue 'welcome' graphic specs windows 2k sp4 athlon 2200+ 512MB unbranded RAM asus a7v 333 MoBo ati 7000 series 64 MB gfx also it looks as though 1 of the ram slots is dead... could putting either of the chips into a dead slot have killed? (the chip I mean) as always excuse the spelling and grammer, thanks in advance for any help, off to lunch now back in a mo..... EDIT - all the above is true when trying safe modes
Try each stick individually in each RAM slot individually also, that way you can rule out if any of the sticks are dead, and/or if any of the slots are dead. Sounds like you put two different RAM types together and that they screwed with one another though, or screwed with the mobo
Just about to try the 512 stick in this machine, back in a mo... EDIT - Yep this stick is fine..... also during boot the bios logo is some times garbled,and it remains a mess through the POST and the windows loading screen EDIT 2 - And the RAM from this machine in the problem PC yeilds the same result, I am thinkinf MOBO of GFX card.... Any Ideas? EDIT 3 - DougEdy - have reset cmos - no effect
UPDATE..... got out an old 4gig drive and started a fresh install of win 2k, and the same problem, so at least I know its not the drive, but I cant get the drive up on any other machine because it is stuck in a repair, (and the fresh install on the reboot) so does this indicate the MOBO?? please correct me if I'm wrong or barking up the wrong proverbial EDIT - Off home now check back in the am thanks y'all
would suspect the mobo, but if you want, put the ram back in (one at a time if you like) and run memtest even though the ram boots and seemingly works ok for post, it may still crash once it starts getting used.
