Toshiba Laptop having memory problems :(

[AmdEmAll]

I'm working on a Toshiba Satallite for a customer.

I thought I figured out what was wrong with it but I guess not.

When I received it, windows xp would boot up and almost get in and then it would blue screen.

I looked up the error and it was mostly related to memory problems.

So I removed the 256mb of sdram. The notebook still has 128mb integrated into the motherboard.

Windows booted up fine...

Ok so I figure hey it's the 256mb stick that must be bad!

I run memtest and it has over 100k errors.

So then I bought a new stick of Kingston off of fs/trade.

What do you know, it fails memtest even faster then the other stick of ram. Like 400k errors and keeps going.

With the kingston stick installed windows doesn't blue screen it just says there is a corrupted file pci.sys.

Then when I remove it windows loads normally.. rigght.

I'm pretty much stumped. Only thing I can think of is that it's a bad ram slot.

Any ideas?

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Have you tried calling Toshiba to see if its a widely recognized problem?

 

[AmdEmAll]

No, it's an older notebook. Pentium 3 650... i'll give it a shot I guess. It is a 'factory reconditioned' notebook so that can't be good.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

If the notebook is that old and reconditioned then the slot could just be bad.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Did a bios update and that didn't seem to fix anything. Still works fine with the onboard ram and windows fails with any ram in the slot...

 

[AmdEmAll]

^^^