Re: Strange issues with laptop of a friend.

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:36:27 -0500, Jamie
<jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This morning my friend said he bought another 1 128 meg stick
to replace the 2 64 meg sticks he had in there.
It worked fine, recently he decided add another 128 meg stick
since now he has a free socket which was the reason for doing this.
When he did , Windows XP fail to boot all the way. It would restart
on the boot and get to the same place and reboot again..
so, he removed extra 128 stick. same problem. then put back in the
original 2 64 meg sticks, same problem.
He stated as it was booting when adding the second 128 meg stick.
the bios did display that he had a total of 256 megs which indicated
everything worked and passes the memory test.

Question:
Did Windows XP get screwed up from some error of his or is
it possible it detect a machine difference and is now rejecting his
attempts to load? or is this some kind of caching issue that can
be cleared up!
P.S.
He stated that it won't boot all the way in safe mode either.
He does have another HD with Windows 2000 which he popped in
and that worked fine with all the memory in it.

Any takers?


I had a compaq desktop computer do this when I installed two sticks of
PNY 512 m ram. After booting a few times with the original ram, XP
began to load correctly. I took out the old stick and put in 1 stick
of the PNY ram and the system booted. I then put in the second stick
and it booted correctly with both sticks. This happened about 6 months
ago and the system has worked fine since the install. Chuck
.

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