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kunsr   12-08-2008 at 09:49:40 PM

I just added memory to my computer (Dell deminsion 8400, vista). After installation it would completely boot up and then it would make a loud niose and then reboot. It worked fine in safe mode. I messed with it for a while and found that if i went into device manager and disabled my sound card (sound blaster 5.1 i think) it would run just fine everything worked. Any suggestions on how to fix the problem between the memory and sound card. Also if i remove the memory the sound works fine.


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major53   12-08-2008 at 10:11:22 PM
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kunsr do you have on board sound that you could try.or just move sound card to another pci slot and try that.hope this helps you out.

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kunsr   12-08-2008 at 11:59:37 PM
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The onboard works fine and did try and change slots i even re-installed all drivers i tried to up date my bios to see if that might help but vista won't let me run the program.

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major53   12-09-2008 at 01:19:06 AM
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kunsr the ram that you added was it the same as what you already had in pc? also how many ram slots does the mobo have and are they color coded.


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kunsr   12-09-2008 at 08:24:01 AM
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It has four slots for a total of 4gb i already had 2 1gb in and i added 2 more yes there the same even ordered them from dell.

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major53   12-09-2008 at 04:51:33 PM
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kunsr try just putting the two new ram in and see if it will boot up ok,one of the new ram could be the problem.

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