Homework Assessment

[Guest]

When your computer locks up after the memory count/check, what would be the 5 most likely reasons for this?

 

[camieabz]

Faulty RAM.
Badly inserted RAM.
Wrong type of RAM.
RAM mixing causes conflict.
Too much RAM for mobo.


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[CALV]

it locks up AFTER the memory check, then it may well be a faulty hard drive- next thing after memory check is normally ide device detection - 1st one being your primary master.


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[silverpig]

It probably wouldn't be the ram. If it was, your system wouldn't even start the boot. It would just do it's series of beep codes. I would have to agree that it'd be an IDE device.

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[killall]

1: hard drive
2: you
3: sorry

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[HolyGrenade]

missed 4 and 5.


rknutowicz:

does the memory count add up to the amount you actually have installed?


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[Arbee]

If it doesn't stop due to the RAM, I would point CMOS corruption and keyboard error to be next. After this comes FDD failure (int 40) and OS boot disk issues (usually HDD).

Of course that the most likely error of all is caused by a forgotten diskette in boot drive A:. After it is the Keyboard error (just need to forget one book over some keys...). But these are harmless.


How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Arbee on 08/06/01 07:51 PM.</EM></FONT></P>