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| Thread ID: 116501 | 2011-03-07 00:37:00 | Error message on turning on | Morgenmuffel (187) | Press F1 |
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| 1184043 | 2011-03-07 00:37:00 | Ok wifey brought home friens laptop that was playing up and going slow, apparently everything was reinstalled a few days ago, but still slow. went to boot it up and got this message memory write/read failure at 2ffe0000, read fe11fe10 expecting fe11fe11 memory address line failure at 2ffe0000, read fe11fe11 expecting 01010101 memory write/read failure at 10000008, read 00ef00ee expecting 00ef00ef decreasing available memory the amount of system memory has changed strike f1 to continue, f2 to run setup utility Any ideas, ram or hard drive? its a Dell inspiron 600m, she has talked to tell 3 times, once she was told it was a hard drive issue, second time she was told its an old she should get a new one and 3rd time was told they had logged it as a harddrive fault and didn't want to know. edit------------------------------------------ Pressing f2 takes you into windows via setup (which look ok) |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1184044 | 2011-03-07 01:04:00 | So have you run Memtest on said PC? | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1184045 | 2011-03-07 01:12:00 | Not yet, I only just got the thing going, wasn't sure it was going to get that far. will do that shortly One thing, the d key on the keyboard is missing, so i can't use any commands that have a d in them. When i am in windows is there a way around this?, I don't have a usb keyboard and i can't work out how to get cmd prompt coming up |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1184046 | 2011-03-07 01:41:00 | So what version of Windows is on it? If Win 7 you can use an on screen keyboard for example. Just checked and find XP pro has on screen keyboard too. Or bring it to my place if you want. Note that both cmd.exe and command.com have a "D" in them. :) |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1184047 | 2011-03-07 01:57:00 | the d key on the keyboard is missing, so i can't use any commands that have a d in them. RAM. And even if the key is missing you should still be able to push on the actual connector. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1184048 | 2011-03-07 02:10:00 | Or to get a "d" hold Alt and type 100 like it says here:- www.justwondering.co.nz HTH |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1184049 | 2011-03-07 02:42:00 | Sounds like faulty RAM to me... | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1184050 | 2011-03-07 03:17:00 | RAM. And even if the key is missing you should still be able to push on the actual connector. first thing I tried, doesn't work. and yes i know cmd.exe had a d in it. can't get around that, wheres the onscreen keyboard thingie ------------------edit Yep my first thought was ram, but the "experts" saying hard drive made me think i could be wrong, anyway memtest+ 4.20 is running now |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1184051 | 2011-03-07 03:32:00 | first thing I tried, doesn't work. and yes i know cmd.exe had a d in it. can't get around that, wheres the onscreen keyboard thingie ------------------edit Yep my first thought was ram, but the "experts" saying hard drive made me think i could be wrong, anyway memtest+ 4.20 is running now I'll make a deal with you. Tell me which version of Windows you are running as I already asked you to do and then I will tell you how to get the on screen keyboard. You can get around the "d" thing as I already told you as well. Type Alt and hold down then type 100 on the number keyboard!!! It's like getting blood out of a stone sometimes. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1184052 | 2011-03-07 03:36:00 | Here's an even easier way: Download a copy of memtest86+ with another computer and make the appropriate floppy\cd\usb Then use that to load and run a memory diagnostic on the machine in question. It's better than the Windows one too, because it actually gives details on screen while running..... |
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