Re: Various boot problems - possible hardware issues
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Date: 04/03/04
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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:30:09 -0800
Well, its running again. I think i've nailed down the
problem to ram slots #3 and #4. After trying about 42
different combinations with 1, 2 and all 3 sticks I was
never able to succesfully boot with ram in slots 3 and 4
of the mobo.
I guess i'll live with my 512mb until its time to build a
new rig. I think I'll wait for PCI Express and new video
cards.
Thanks for the suggestions. Sometimes pc's can be so
frustrating...
>-----Original Message-----
>It sound like a problem with the connections between the
memory and the
>motherboard. When I was building my computer I pulled
memory in and out and
>finally I was about to give up it started working. I
however noticed that
>it was only recognizing 64 MB and I had 512 MB. I went
into my bios and
>noticed there was a turbo mode. When I enabled the turbo
mode all memory was
>suddenly recognized.
>I noticed that when I was installing the memory I could
move the stick
>around slightly so it wasn't fitting snuggly. As long as
I got it working I
>left it alone.
>"RZ" <rick_illini@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1493801c418b9$fd8ae090$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> 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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