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I own a dell dimension 4700 with windows xp pro 32-bit. it has 1 gig of 4 256 mb ddr2-3200u modules in it but when i went to upgrade it to 2 gigs of ddr2-6400u windows first crashed twice then when it finaloly booted up it would not open my programs and then after that it would open them but it would soon crash ang give me many errors.
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Ok i upgraded my BIOS to A10 but that did not work. I also know that the ram is good because It came out of another working computer. Also this morning i was fiddling around on it and switched out the ram aging and I got a beep code. I'll try memtest on it.
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pcnut2001 said:
Ok i upgraded my BIOS to A10 but that did not work. I also know that the ram is good because It came out of another working computer. Also this morning i was fiddling around on it and switched out the ram aging and I got a beep code. I'll try memtest on it.

What were the results of Memtest?
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pcnut2001 said:
This makes me sound stupid but i could not get memtest to work.

Not at all. If you downloaded the file with an .ISO extension, you will need to use a disk burning program to make a bootable disk from that file. Did you do that?

Yes I did ,but when I put the disk in when I press the power button it still boots in to windows. Should I be burning it as an ISO image? Also Should the disk contain ISOLINUX , SRC_40A 132kb and SRC_40A 144 KB
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Unfortunately, that was what I was expecting. Bad RAM is usually the first thing to suspect with those symptoms. And old DDR2 memory is getting scarce and expensive. Was the bad memory used?
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One last thing... be sure to buy your memory in matching pairs if you are going to populate 1 pair of dual channel slots, or in sets of 4 if you are going to populate all 4 slots.

Have a nice day.
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