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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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 Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: Bad Ram? |
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I have a Compaq Presario laptop that came with a gig of ram. The laptop started to act funny the past week. The laptop would turn on, stay at a black screen, then turn itself off and back on. After doing this 10 or so times, the laptop would eventually boot (but would freeze at the startup screen).
I did some looking on the net and the issue seems to be bad memory? Has this happened to anyone else? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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It could be a whole host of things.......RAM is one of the likely things.......
..................bring it to a computer store and ask one of the guys to try replacement RAM in there just for a minute to see if that's the prob. If the lappy works, then buy some RAM off him.
Get 2GB. It's cheap as chips nowadays. |
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| I totally agree with eamo, trouble shooting (I almost wrote shiiting) is normally a process of deduction through a proccess of elimination. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:53 am Post subject: |
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Power, corrupt system file, RAM (doubt it actually), hard drive problem (corruption/bad sectors).
Try doing a restore, chkdsk, memtest....? |
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:55 am Post subject: |
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its true, it could be many things...
A re-install of the OS would not hurt. |
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