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| Thread ID: 43880 | 2004-03-30 05:15:00 | Argh, computer failure again. Please help! | mejobloggs (264) | Press F1 |
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| 225984 | 2004-03-30 05:15:00 | First I heard of it is when I got home from school, my Dad said the computer was making funny beeping sounds, and would not work. I tried it, and it started up after about 2 tries, and I got to windows, and then it reset. Then it worked ok. I was just mucking around seeing if all was ok, played a game for 5 minutes, and poof! Restarted. Started again, try to go to pressf1, and Poof! again. Turned it on, it said I had 32768 KB ram, and I have 256mb. Now, turn it on, and nothing happens, no beep or anything. Hear a few whizzings of fans, but nothing at all displayes on screen. What could it be? Could a dead harddrive do this? I just recently partitioned, but it has been fine for about a month untill now. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 225985 | 2004-03-30 05:23:00 | Turned it on, it said I had 32768 KB ram, and I have 256mb. that means ur ram has dropped from 256mb to 32mb, right? sounds like your ram could be screwed for no reason. |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 225986 | 2004-03-30 05:24:00 | if your harddrive was dead, i think the computer would start normally and say boot failure or no harddrive detected or something. | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 225987 | 2004-03-30 05:27:00 | And if my RAM was screwed, would it not also start normally, and at least make a beep? Oddly enough, it is going now, for how long, I do not know. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 225988 | 2004-03-30 05:33:00 | OUch. I ran memtest +, and it has done 1% of the test, and found 200 000 errors so far. Looks like its fried. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 225989 | 2004-03-30 05:39:00 | This has happened on 2 computers now. They both have Wintec ram. Never heard of it. Must be some el cheapo stuff that the shop flogged off to us. Lucky we have a warranty. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 225990 | 2004-03-30 10:32:00 | wonder how the ram got stuffed in the first place? random... maybe a fault on the motherboard that was killing the ram - i had the restarting problem with some ram once, but only cause one stick was single sided and one was double sided. | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 225991 | 2004-03-31 03:31:00 | If your Ram is on several cards, leave a card in slot1, remove the others & boot. Shut down & then replace the card with another. This way you can tell which one is faulty. You may find that removing & replacing the cards may cure it. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 225992 | 2004-03-31 06:31:00 | Only one stick. I took it into the shop to get fixed. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
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