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| Thread ID: 92791 | 2008-08-23 04:33:00 | Faulty RAM module produced strange fault | curly (6655) | Press F1 |
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| 699585 | 2008-08-23 04:33:00 | A stick of DDR2 (2.5) 512 mx16 RAM went faulty. Tricky Dickie replaced it with 512 MB DDR PC3200 400 MHz, which the system recognises. Total RAM now back to 1 Gig. On boot all goes well including the XP splash screen, but then goes dark for around 1minute 30 odd seconds. ( It used to be around 10 -15 seconds) . However after the minute plus, the welcome screen comes up and XP Pro boots ok. Any ideas what might be causing this lengthy boot process ? Another new fault. I have a USB mouse and now after bootup the mouse does not work until I manually remove it from its port, however if I plug it back in straight away it works OK. Help with this one to please. Computer is/has MS Windows XP Pro V2002 SP2. AMD Athlon XP 2500+. 1>83 GB of RAM. |
curly (6655) | ||
| 699586 | 2008-08-23 04:43:00 | Ummm DDR2 isnt DDR ram. Theyre different. And DDR wont fit. Does the mobo take DDR2 or DDR ram? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 699587 | 2008-08-23 04:56:00 | Some boards have slots for both DDR & DDR2, but you cant mix them, if you do all sorts of weird problem arise, thats if the board will boot at all. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 699588 | 2008-08-23 08:08:00 | The long delay with a blank screen is probably caused by the Bios setting 'usb legacy support' in combination with some other condition. For example a friend of mine found that if he had his usb connected printer powered on when he booted his system there was a 3 min 20 sec blank screen delay during bootup. If the printer was not powered up or 'usb legacy support' in bios was disabled no delay occurred. The down side to disabling usb legacy support is that if you have a usb keyboard it won't work in bios, dos or safemode because without bios legacy support it has to rely on windows loading usb drivers. There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding how to set this option. HTH |
jinja_thom (4306) | ||
| 699589 | 2008-08-23 09:11:00 | Ummm DDR2 isnt DDR ram. Theyre different. And DDR wont fit. Does the mobo take DDR2 or DDR ram? Whoops - Sticker on RAM is too small for my eyes! The failed RAM was DDR 333 (2.5) 512 MX16. So it takes DDR. It was replaced with DDR PC 3200 400 MHz. Hope that makes sense. |
curly (6655) | ||
| 699590 | 2008-08-23 09:15:00 | Some boards have slots for both DDR & DDR2, but you cant mix them, if you do all sorts of weird problem arise, thats if the board will boot at all. Hi, I stuffed up. The board takes DDR RAM only. Oh and I forgot to mention, I reloaded the Logitech USB mouse software again, but it made no difference. Everything was fine till the RAM module failed |
curly (6655) | ||
| 699591 | 2008-08-23 09:42:00 | The long delay with a blank screen is probably caused by the Bios setting 'usb legacy support' in combination with some other condition. For example a friend of mine found that if he had his usb connected printer powered on when he booted his system there was a 3 min 20 sec blank screen delay during bootup. If the printer was not powered up or 'usb legacy support' in bios was disabled no delay occurred. The down side to disabling usb legacy support is that if you have a usb keyboard it won't work in bios, dos or safemode because without bios legacy support it has to rely on windows loading usb drivers. There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding how to set this option. HTH Thanks for the suggestion. I dont have a USB keyboard, but I did change the setting USB mouse support from disabled to enabled, but it made no difference. There is no legacy support option for anything at all. |
curly (6655) | ||
| 699592 | 2008-08-23 09:56:00 | Thanks for the suggestion. I dont have a USB keyboard, but I did change the setting USB mouse support from disabled to enabled, but it made no difference. There is no legacy support option for anything at all. Well it looks like the RAM is not the problem, as I removed the new RAM stick and it made no difference to the two problem's. While I was at it, I checked out administrator/event log, but nothing adverse has been logged for several weeks. So... Anything else I can check out ? |
curly (6655) | ||
| 699593 | 2008-08-23 10:10:00 | Well it looks like the RAM is not the problem, as I removed the new RAM stick and it made no difference to the two problem's. While I was at it, I checked out administrator/event log, but nothing adverse has been logged for several weeks. So... Anything else I can check out ? Problem solved!!! I took the mouse out of a USB port connected to the motherboard and moved it to a port on an add on PCI card. I must now remember that the on board port might just be suspect, it worked fine, once the mouse receiver was pulled out and then replaced. One of life's little mysteries I guess. But thanks to all. |
curly (6655) | ||
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