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Recently i noticed that windows is apparently not
recognizing all of my installed ram. I have 3 256mb
sticks, but it appears to only recognize 2 of them. I've
ignored this for several months since everything has been
working fine. Yesterday several problems started with my
PC. First, upon rebooting i get a msg that says "NTLDR
is missing". At this point windows will not boot and my
only option is ctrl-alt-del. i do this several times
with the same result. Next i look to a hardware problem
and start by pulling ram sticks one at a time. Pull one
stick same result. Pull a second stick and i boot.
Great.
But now i want to know which stick is bad so i boot the
pc successfully with each stick individually in slot 1 of
the mobo. I find this odd, but who knows with
windows. I reinstall all 3 sticks again and now the
monitor will not come out of sleep mode even though it
appears the machine is booting (although since the screen
is black I can't be certain. I go back to 1 stick of ram
which worked when i tried them individually a few steps
ago. Monitor still not coming out of sleep mode.
Next i look to a video card problem. Pull the card out
of the AGP port and reinstall it. Windows boots. I
reinstall all 3 sticks of ram and Windows boots, yet only
recognizes 1 of them. It's appears that its either the
video card or the AGP slot that is bad. Or perhaps the
card is not making good contact with the AGP slot or vice-
versa. Is the next best step to buy a new vid card and
test the result? I hate to think its the mobo, although
it is two and a half years old. I'm dreading the thought
of having to remove everything from the case and
reinstalling everything on a new mobo.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I'm
running an ABIT KR-7A Raid mobo with XP Pro and a Geforce
3 video card and i'm hoping to not upgrade anything for
another 6 months or so.
Recently i noticed that windows is apparently not
recognizing all of my installed ram. I have 3 256mb
sticks, but it appears to only recognize 2 of them. I've
ignored this for several months since everything has been
working fine. Yesterday several problems started with my
PC. First, upon rebooting i get a msg that says "NTLDR
is missing". At this point windows will not boot and my
only option is ctrl-alt-del. i do this several times
with the same result. Next i look to a hardware problem
and start by pulling ram sticks one at a time. Pull one
stick same result. Pull a second stick and i boot.
Great.
But now i want to know which stick is bad so i boot the
pc successfully with each stick individually in slot 1 of
the mobo. I find this odd, but who knows with
windows. I reinstall all 3 sticks again and now the
monitor will not come out of sleep mode even though it
appears the machine is booting (although since the screen
is black I can't be certain. I go back to 1 stick of ram
which worked when i tried them individually a few steps
ago. Monitor still not coming out of sleep mode.
Next i look to a video card problem. Pull the card out
of the AGP port and reinstall it. Windows boots. I
reinstall all 3 sticks of ram and Windows boots, yet only
recognizes 1 of them. It's appears that its either the
video card or the AGP slot that is bad. Or perhaps the
card is not making good contact with the AGP slot or vice-
versa. Is the next best step to buy a new vid card and
test the result? I hate to think its the mobo, although
it is two and a half years old. I'm dreading the thought
of having to remove everything from the case and
reinstalling everything on a new mobo.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I'm
running an ABIT KR-7A Raid mobo with XP Pro and a Geforce
3 video card and i'm hoping to not upgrade anything for
another 6 months or so.
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