Just an oddball question. I picked up an extra 256 meg of memory for my PC at home since I plan on installing Windows XP when it is available later this month. Right now I've got 512 meg, this would have moved me to 768 meg. I'm running Windows 98 right now.
When I installed that last 256 meg simm, Windows wouldn't complete booting. The BIOS recognized the memory just fine (IWILL KK266, Athlon 1.4ghz, Kingston PC-133 valueram), but Windows would stop loading just as the background bitmap loaded. If I gave it the three fingered salute, it would say that msgsrv32 was not responding.
I did all sorts of stuff, reloading all related drivers, etc., but the only thing that would 'fix' the problem was removing that third chunk of memory.
Funny thing is, I took that memory and put it in a different system, and it worked just fine. So I don't think the memory is BAD, it just wasn't working as the third simm in my system...
Anybody heard of this before ? Think I'll be able to re-install this memory when I upgrade to XP ?
When I installed that last 256 meg simm, Windows wouldn't complete booting. The BIOS recognized the memory just fine (IWILL KK266, Athlon 1.4ghz, Kingston PC-133 valueram), but Windows would stop loading just as the background bitmap loaded. If I gave it the three fingered salute, it would say that msgsrv32 was not responding.
I did all sorts of stuff, reloading all related drivers, etc., but the only thing that would 'fix' the problem was removing that third chunk of memory.
Funny thing is, I took that memory and put it in a different system, and it worked just fine. So I don't think the memory is BAD, it just wasn't working as the third simm in my system...
Anybody heard of this before ? Think I'll be able to re-install this memory when I upgrade to XP ?
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