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My brother has a Dell D600 Latitude laptop. I knew he had 256 megs of ram so I got him a 512 stick of ddr2700. I was surprised to see 2 256 meg sticks. The lappy booted up with 768 megs of ram present. However, sometimes after reboots the ram would change back to 256. I switched the 512 and 256 around and the whole 768 would show again. But again, it would go down to 512 megs. I mem tested when both ram sticks were present and they tested fine overnight. The problem is obviously the laptop ram slots, one of them is messed up somehow as it doesn't detect the ram all the time, and a reseating of the ram is necessary. He called me today and told me his laptop was working fine but it locked up and upon reboot it would power on then immediately off. The laptop battery was fully charged (he thought it was the new harddrive in it but it wasn't obviously) and I had him reseat the ram and it then booted.
Cliffs: One of the laptop ram slots is bad in my lil brother's laptop and doesn't always detect the ram in it, at which point it needs to be reseated. Any possible solutions?
My brother has a Dell D600 Latitude laptop. I knew he had 256 megs of ram so I got him a 512 stick of ddr2700. I was surprised to see 2 256 meg sticks. The lappy booted up with 768 megs of ram present. However, sometimes after reboots the ram would change back to 256. I switched the 512 and 256 around and the whole 768 would show again. But again, it would go down to 512 megs. I mem tested when both ram sticks were present and they tested fine overnight. The problem is obviously the laptop ram slots, one of them is messed up somehow as it doesn't detect the ram all the time, and a reseating of the ram is necessary. He called me today and told me his laptop was working fine but it locked up and upon reboot it would power on then immediately off. The laptop battery was fully charged (he thought it was the new harddrive in it but it wasn't obviously) and I had him reseat the ram and it then booted.
Cliffs: One of the laptop ram slots is bad in my lil brother's laptop and doesn't always detect the ram in it, at which point it needs to be reseated. Any possible solutions?
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