Laptop not booting when added additional memory

AdamDuritz99

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I have a Gateway 450sx4. It has 256mb ram and I bought another stick of 200-pin SODIMM DDR ram recommend for my laptop by crucial. Anyways, I put the additional memory in, and my laptop will turn on, starting the fans, and that's it. The screen doesn't come on, and I don't hear the HD working. Does anyone know how to get this to work. I did everything that Gateways says to do in this guide. I also took to memory that the laptop come with and put it in the other slot, and it works fine. Thanks for the help.

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sean
 

NFactor

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Does the laptop run properly when you remove the Crucial stick and boot only with the older stick of ram?

If so then i would agree with rpbri that the ram is bad.