Hi all, here's a good puzzle for you:
I originally have 96 mb of ram in my PC. By the way im running a Dell Dimension XPS T450:
Phoenix Bios 4.0 version 6.0
13 GB Hard Drive
Voodoo 3 3000 graphics card.
Anyway, so I recently purchased Corsair Memory (256 MB) from Fry's and installed it into my computer. When it boots up, the memory check only counts the original 96 MB i have in my computer, but not the additional 256 that I installed. When I go into the bios, the memory slot detects that there is in fact is a 256 Mb Dimm there ( as it should). When it continues to boot up, it does not boot up my operating system, but it says: "windows protection error. Please restart." So i restart, and i get the same exact symptoms again.
When I try using just the newly purchased corsair 256 Mb memory by itself (removing the original 96) my PC doesnt even bootup and doesnt perform a memory check. There is no signal going to my monitor and it sits as if my PC is off. I've tried putting it in all slots and I get the same results. I initially thought that it might be fautly memory, so I then purchased Mushkin memory. When I installed that, I get the same exact results. When I pull out the non-dell memory, everything seems to be working fine. No errors at all. Can anyone tell me whats going on? Thank you.
A side note: When trying to run Half-Life/Counter strike I get numerous errors saying that it is unable to load certain bmp files or certain files are "empty." This occurs even though I can sucessfully install on others' computers, AND after I completely reformatted my entire disk drive. Anyone know a solution to this as well? Thanks.
I originally have 96 mb of ram in my PC. By the way im running a Dell Dimension XPS T450:
Phoenix Bios 4.0 version 6.0
13 GB Hard Drive
Voodoo 3 3000 graphics card.
Anyway, so I recently purchased Corsair Memory (256 MB) from Fry's and installed it into my computer. When it boots up, the memory check only counts the original 96 MB i have in my computer, but not the additional 256 that I installed. When I go into the bios, the memory slot detects that there is in fact is a 256 Mb Dimm there ( as it should). When it continues to boot up, it does not boot up my operating system, but it says: "windows protection error. Please restart." So i restart, and i get the same exact symptoms again.
When I try using just the newly purchased corsair 256 Mb memory by itself (removing the original 96) my PC doesnt even bootup and doesnt perform a memory check. There is no signal going to my monitor and it sits as if my PC is off. I've tried putting it in all slots and I get the same results. I initially thought that it might be fautly memory, so I then purchased Mushkin memory. When I installed that, I get the same exact results. When I pull out the non-dell memory, everything seems to be working fine. No errors at all. Can anyone tell me whats going on? Thank you.
A side note: When trying to run Half-Life/Counter strike I get numerous errors saying that it is unable to load certain bmp files or certain files are "empty." This occurs even though I can sucessfully install on others' computers, AND after I completely reformatted my entire disk drive. Anyone know a solution to this as well? Thanks.
