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Vista Home Basic memory upgrade to 4gb - Blue screen
In message gsanche5
wrote: DevilsPGD;768438 Wrote: A couple things to try, first off, have you tried each of the 2GB sticks individually in slot #1? If that works, try either alone in slot #2. Next, insert both sticks, and run MemTest86+ from 'Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool' (http://www.memtest.org/) and see if this yields any clues. Thanks DevilsPGD. I've tried inserting the 2 Gb sticks on either slots and the same happens. To do the other thing you suggest, I'll need to boot my notebook somehow. Your system still boots with just 2GB, correct? Can you boot with either 2GB stick in slot #1 and slot #2 empty? How about if you test each stick in slot #2 with slot #1 empty? With both sticks on, it never gets to start Vista, so I don't know how could I run a memtest. Any guidance? Thanks. Memtest86+ is a bootable CD, you just need to create the CD (using any PC, or your PC with only 2GB installed) Vista won't be involved in the actual execution of the test. |
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Vista Home Basic memory upgrade to 4gb - Blue screen
In message "Colin
Barnhorst" wrote: Run the memtest on each stick individually. It's all you can do at the moment. That, and try running memtest with both. If you can't do that, you have hardware problems, Vista isn't involved or related at all. Vista's memory diagnostic wouldn't hurt either, but I'd tend to prefer memtest86+ here since it's based on a different OS, so it can rule out whether Vista is part of the problem or not. |
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