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Hi. Can anyone help me with this?
I have a Packard Bell Club 600 PC with Celeron 600Mhz on a Gigbyte GA
6WMM7 motherboard. It had 64MB of RAM and works fine, albeit slowly.
I took the old RAM out and installed a single stick of 256MB RAM and
now windows won't start! The BIOS recognises the RAM and operates
normally but when BIOS hands over to Windows the screen goes black and
booting either stops or the machine reboots.
When I put the old RAM back in, everything works fine again. Out of
curiosity I added a second stick of 64MB and the machine still worked
fine.
I've been through tech support help with the RAM supplier and accept
their view that the RAM is OK but windows is causing the problem. Their
suggestion is to wipe the disk and reinstall windows - a prospect am
unwilling to confront as I have so much software on it.
Is there some esoteric setting in windows I can modify to cure the
problem?
My thanks, in advance, for any help offered.
Andy
Hi. Can anyone help me with this?
I have a Packard Bell Club 600 PC with Celeron 600Mhz on a Gigbyte GA
6WMM7 motherboard. It had 64MB of RAM and works fine, albeit slowly.
I took the old RAM out and installed a single stick of 256MB RAM and
now windows won't start! The BIOS recognises the RAM and operates
normally but when BIOS hands over to Windows the screen goes black and
booting either stops or the machine reboots.
When I put the old RAM back in, everything works fine again. Out of
curiosity I added a second stick of 64MB and the machine still worked
fine.
I've been through tech support help with the RAM supplier and accept
their view that the RAM is OK but windows is causing the problem. Their
suggestion is to wipe the disk and reinstall windows - a prospect am
unwilling to confront as I have so much software on it.
Is there some esoteric setting in windows I can modify to cure the
problem?
My thanks, in advance, for any help offered.
Andy