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Thread ID: 90588 2008-06-09 01:22:00 Is my dial-up modem about to die?! mark1978 (13845) Press F1
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676567 2008-06-09 04:21:00 Hi driftwood thanks for helping me,

Yes the pc recognises the 1GB RAM. And the other question you had if I had done anything else when I installed this RAM.

I will tell you a story, we decided to go from dial-up to broadband (al this is still in process)
My dream last week was to get more ram and maybe a new video-card, On saturday morning I took out the 2 sticks of 256 and went to our local shop, we exchanged sticks, he had a second hand 1 gig. He put it in for me and i went home. I started the computer and when windows started it gave me some hardware faults, i decided at this point I was going to reformat the drive, after that the cd was copying the new files, al of a sudden the installation stopped and did not continue, I re-did the same process a couple times until I got furious....................I took the pc back to the shop where he took out the ram and put a untouched 1gig Ram back in it..............and this worked, and windows got reloaded.
The shop also reckond that my DVD-ROM IDE drive was faulty and they disconnected that. When I got home I started to put my stuff back on it.....and now I realised that the modem was doing very funny things.......I have posted another thread here that I had major problems with a USB external hard drive, windows did not recognise it. 		mark1978 (13845)
676568 2008-06-09 04:36:00 Ok so you have a fresh install of XP?
Have you installed the device drivers? 		Driftwood (5551)
676569 2008-06-09 04:51:00 Yes I have installed al the latest updates for this computer, I even went to the site I posted and downloaded al the drives. The only drivers I can not download is my bios, they ask $29 US dollars for that.

This is what I have:
Computer name: MARK
Your Ticket #: 23QKXWC
BIOS Type: Phoenix-Award
BIOS Date: January 13th 2003
BIOS ID: 01/13/2003-SiS-651-6A6IXM4FC-00-None
BIOS OEM: W6533SMS V5.3 011303 15:35:21 - 6.00 PG
Chipset: SiS 651 rev 1
SuperIO: Winbond 697HF rev 6 at port 002E
Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Motherboard: MS-6533
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2.0
Maximum Memory: 2048MB
Installed Memory: 1024MB
Memory Config: Slot1:1024 Slot2:0 		mark1978 (13845)
676570 2008-06-09 04:59:00 OK work your way through the problems.
Have a look at the site pctek gave you for the shut down problem & sort that 1st. That may help other thing as well.
Is there any flags (exclamation marks) on the device manager list? 		Driftwood (5551)
676571 2008-06-09 05:09:00 I appreciate you helping me, uhmm no yellow exclamation marks in the device manager, where is the pctek website? mark1978 (13845)
676572 2008-06-09 05:28:00 The microsoft site that pctek gave you, look back a few posts. Driftwood (5551)
676573 2008-06-09 06:50:00 The site that was recommended did nothing for this computer, I think it is a bios setting like it says in the beginning, I will go in there later to have a look. I reckon the pc guy did some changes when he installed the new ram. mark1978 (13845)
676574 2008-06-09 06:57:00 You don't need to pay for your BIOS - you can get the latest one straight from MSI themselves for free... global.msi.com.tw

Sounds to me like your new RAM may be incompatible (BIOS Update might fix that) or it's faulty..

Have you tried running Memtest? 		Agent_24 (57)
676575 2008-06-09 07:10:00 Hi Agent 24,

Thanks for helping me, I am going to that link right now, yes I have done a memory test, the shop gave me a disc with a mem test on it, the memory I have in there right now is alright, the one that the gave me when I traded my old ones in is faulty, they are currently looking for a other one for me. I will post back once I have looked at the link 		mark1978 (13845)
676576 2008-06-09 07:19:00 Oh sjeesh! I dont have a disk drive no more....uhmmmm...(red face) Ok so updating the bios is out.... mark1978 (13845)
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