[dontmess]

Hello, basically I have a Packard Bell iMedia 5116 SE. It originally came with one stick of 512mb RAM, which worked fine. However i recently 2 new 512mb of RAM.

I bought identical ones.

However now there is a problem.

When i turn my computer on, it starts then freezes with the CPU light on, and the screen doesn't turn on.

Then I turn the computer of and back on again.....and it works fine.???

Can someone explain why it only works the second time!

Please Help!!!

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Welcome to Geeks to Go, dontmess.

It sounds like one of the sticks of ram is kinda dodgy. Download memtest, read how to use it on the website, and run a test on your memory to see if memtest finds problems.

http://www.memtest86.com/

SRX660

Edited by SRX660, 24 January 2007 - 09:12 PM.

[SRX660]

Welcome to Geeks to Go, dontmess.

It sounds like one of the sticks of ram is kinda dodgy. Download memtest, read how to use it on the website, and run a test on your memory to see if memtest finds problems.

http://www.memtest86.com/

SRX660

Edited by SRX660, 24 January 2007 - 09:12 PM.

[dontmess]

thanks SRX600, i'll give it a try