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Hey guyz im running a VIA motherboard i think its a p4pe but thats not the issue, it has to ram slots in which 1 is already occuied by a 512mb stick of ram. Recentley i just purchased a 256mb stick and fitted it in correctly, but what i found that is on startup just as windows is about to display the welcome sign, the computer restarts and begins to boot again. Does Someone know y?.
Thanks for you help

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Take out the 512mb stick and see if it will boot, if it doesnt take out and try it with just the 512mb stick, What you want to do is get memtest and run it on the new 256mb stick and test it for errors, let it run a while, overnight is best.

[warriorscot]

Take out the 512mb stick and see if it will boot, if it doesnt take out and try it with just the 512mb stick, What you want to do is get memtest and run it on the new 256mb stick and test it for errors, let it run a while, overnight is best.

[Fenor]

Some computers are very picky when it comes to RAM, they need to be the same size and the same frequency.

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How do you test for errors?

[davesfx]

Memtest86-Dos Based, only 1 stick at a time.

http://www.memtest86.com/

HTA
davesfx

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Ok Test Was Done and there were no errors found on the stick, it seems to be in good shape.