re: Ugent help needed, PLEASE!!!!!!
Monday, August 22, 2005 at 5:29 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23890 messages posted)
You most certainly could have damaged the RAM or the motherboard. Remove the new
stick, and hope for the best when you restart it. The problem is that when you insert
it, it is easy to short out adjacent pins.
On Monday, August 22, 2005 at 5:07 pm, Sam Okeh wrote:
>I had a pc that was infested with all types of viruses.
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>A friend asked me to go ahead and re-image the pc and start all over again.
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>Before I did that, I determined that the memory is only 128 mb for xp professional.
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>I added another stick of memory (128mb) to bring it to 256.
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>One mistake I made was that I put this memory stick while the pc was still running.
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>I didn't then, as I don't now think that would cause any problems.
>However, when I rebooted the pc, I got an error that memory size had changed, usual
>message but then it would take me directly to cmos.
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>Eventually, after reading up on it, I went back to cmos and clicked "save & exit"
>Since I did that, the pc is caught up in an infinite reboot.
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>It reboots to command prompt and gives me several options including start normally
>or in safe mode.
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>It doesn't matter what my choice is, it takes always takes me there.
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>Any ideas, please all???
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