Dell and new RAM

[JCW]

While attempting to install a new stick of Ram in my son's Dell, something
didn't like it so I removed it and now it won't boot. I goes to the XP Home
Edition Splash Screen and the indicator bar goes across very slowly and
that's as far as it will get. I tried safe mode to do a system restore,
didn't work. I tried a Repair from the CD it gets to copying system
files )VERY SLOWLY) then hangs. Can some one suggest a remedy please.

JCW

[Jim Macklin]

You could have damaged the RAM mechanically or by static
discharge.


"JCW" > wrote in message
...
| While attempting to install a new stick of Ram in my son's
Dell, something
| didn't like it so I removed it and now it won't boot. I
goes to the XP Home
| Edition Splash Screen and the indicator bar goes across
very slowly and
| that's as far as it will get. I tried safe mode to do a
system restore,
| didn't work. I tried a Repair from the CD it gets to
copying system
| files )VERY SLOWLY) then hangs. Can some one suggest a
remedy please.
|
| JCW
|
|

[Len Segal]

Are you sure that you removed the precise RAM module that was the "New one"
and not one that had been there before? Dell's are real particular that
generic RAM usually will NOT work! They require RAM modules that are made
for the specific model Dell machine only, and are thus more expensive of
course.

Also, check and make sure that you didn't partially dislodge one of the
remaining RAM modules when you installed/removed the new RAM.

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Microsoft - MVP
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"JCW" > wrote in message
...
> While attempting to install a new stick of Ram in my son's Dell, something
> didn't like it so I removed it and now it won't boot. I goes to the XP
Home
> Edition Splash Screen and the indicator bar goes across very slowly and
> that's as far as it will get. I tried safe mode to do a system restore,
> didn't work. I tried a Repair from the CD it gets to copying system
> files )VERY SLOWLY) then hangs. Can some one suggest a remedy please.
>
> JCW
>
>


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