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Strange booting problem

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cw695356

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Hi this forum seens the place for help so here goes.....

I have an old machine that I wanted to upgrade the ram on so I opened the case and took out one of the dimms to see what it was. I then put it back in and powered back up. So far so good I thought but now the pc refuses to work correctly.
I can get into the BIOS I can get windows to boot but after a certain period of time the machine freezes. No response from keyboard or mouse. This would be fine if it was only doing this in windows but its also freezing in the BIOS and its beyond me.
So if anyone has any idea how to solve this I would be very thankful
By the way the pc is a 533mhz celeron with 128mb ram running windows ME
 
Hey there

It sounds very much like a RAM problem that you're having... or that the RAM you currently have installed isn't seated 100%. I had that once before, a system was strangely slow, with random hanging. I took the RAM chip out, checked the contact pins were 100% clean, and then reseated the RAM, ensuring that it was sitting perfectly. The problem seemed to go away after that.

If doing what I suggested above doesn't work, you might also try setting the BIOS to 'Fail safe defaults' or whatever the equivalent setting is for your particular BIOS. This sometimes helps.

If that doesn't work either, then all I can suggest is trying another RAM chip.
 
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