Ram Upgrade

[Pete]

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After adding a stick 128mb to computer...shows up
correctly but when XP Pro boots goes to the screen with
options: start in safe mode
start in normal mode
blah, blah, blah,
After picking the option, the system just loops back to
this screen. Any help would be appreciated! It is the
correct ram for the machine, so that is not the problem.
Has to be something with XP.

Thanks in advance,

PETER

 

[Guest]

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Usually it's the second stick of RAM is NOT compatible with the first.

Look at www.crucial.com for what RAM is necessary for your PC.

Cari
www.coribright.com

"Pete" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:127f001c4181f$e09f5e10$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> After adding a stick 128mb to computer...shows up
> correctly but when XP Pro boots goes to the screen with
> options: start in safe mode
> start in normal mode
> blah, blah, blah,
> After picking the option, the system just loops back to
> this screen. Any help would be appreciated! It is the
> correct ram for the machine, so that is not the problem.
> Has to be something with XP.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> PETER

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Your memory is not compatible, all sticks must be of the
same spec, it must match in CAS and other specs, or it is
possible that the new stick is defective. BTW, can you
still find RAM as small as 128 MB?


"Pete" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:127f001c4181f$e09f5e10$a001280a@phx.gbl...
| After adding a stick 128mb to computer...shows up
| correctly but when XP Pro boots goes to the screen with
| options: start in safe mode
| start in normal mode
| blah, blah, blah,
| After picking the option, the system just loops back to
| this screen. Any help would be appreciated! It is the
| correct ram for the machine, so that is not the problem.
| Has to be something with XP.
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| PETER

 

[Pete]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Thanks for the advice but the stick is from the mfg. of
the computer and can't be a problem with the stick as it
will function correctly by itself. The problem occurs
when both are installed and they both show correctly in
the bios. JIM you can still purchase all the 128mb sticks
that you want but they are costly. Thanks again ALL for
your assistance.

Pete
>-----Original Message-----
>Usually it's the second stick of RAM is NOT compatible
with the first.
>
>Look at www.crucial.com for what RAM is necessary for
your PC.
>
>Cari
>www.coribright.com
>
>"Pete" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:127f001c4181f$e09f5e10$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> After adding a stick 128mb to computer...shows up
>> correctly but when XP Pro boots goes to the screen with
>> options: start in safe mode
>> start in normal mode
>> blah, blah, blah,
>> After picking the option, the system just loops back to
>> this screen. Any help would be appreciated! It is the
>> correct ram for the machine, so that is not the
problem.
>> Has to be something with XP.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> PETER
>
>
>.
>

 

[Pete]

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Didn't think I would find any help for this problem. It
is a tough one for sure, but again, thanks for trying.
>-----Original Message-----
>Thanks for the advice but the stick is from the mfg. of
>the computer and can't be a problem with the stick as it
>will function correctly by itself. The problem occurs
>when both are installed and they both show correctly in
>the bios. JIM you can still purchase all the 128mb
sticks
>that you want but they are costly. Thanks again ALL for
>your assistance.
>
>Pete
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Usually it's the second stick of RAM is NOT compatible
>with the first.
>>
>>Look at www.crucial.com for what RAM is necessary for
>your PC.
>>
>>Cari
>>www.coribright.com
>>
>>"Pete" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>message
>>news:127f001c4181f$e09f5e10$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>>> After adding a stick 128mb to computer...shows up
>>> correctly but when XP Pro boots goes to the screen
with
>>> options: start in safe mode
>>> start in normal mode
>>> blah, blah, blah,
>>> After picking the option, the system just loops back
to
>>> this screen. Any help would be appreciated! It is the
>>> correct ram for the machine, so that is not the
>problem.
>>> Has to be something with XP.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> PETER
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

"Pete" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>After adding a stick 128mb to computer...shows up
>correctly but when XP Pro boots goes to the screen with
>options: start in safe mode
> start in normal mode
> blah, blah, blah,
>After picking the option, the system just loops back to
>this screen. Any help would be appreciated! It is the
>correct ram for the machine, so that is not the problem.
>Has to be something with XP.
>

Try booting your computer with *just* the new 128 mb of RAM installed
and see what happens. If that causes problems then the new RAM module
is defective, or has the wrong specs for your computer.

And if the computer works okay when either the old RAM or the new RAM
are installed by themselves but has problems when both are installed
together then the problem is that the two RAM modules are not
compatible with each other.

RAM modules from different manufacturers, or even from the same
manufacturer but different production lots, can have internal
differences in the material composition and/or the physical layout of
the RAM chips. These differences can affect the strength and timing
of the signals returned from the RAM and Windows is sensitive to these
differences.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."