Ok I have a Dell 4400 its about 4 to 5 years old.
Its a 1.6 ghz, P4 Windows XP Home,
160gig HD that I put in about 2 years ago.
It has 512 ram, one stick is oringal and the oter is a kingston I added about 2 years ago.
Has a Acer CD rom, and a Sony CD/RW DVD Rom That I also have installed at different times.
Ok heres the problem, I have been getting some what seemed like slow memory?? I would open something and it would come up quick but in like stages, sort of like layers?
So I thought I had a bad stick of memory? Its happened before. So I ordered a 1 gig stick as I have two 256 right now and decided I would max it out if I was going to do it.
I installed the new stick and removed the old, I turned the computer on and all I got was 3 beeps?
Ok maybe it did not seat right?? I took it out reinstalled and the same thing?
Ok maybe it belongs in the other slot ( I Have two) and still 3 beeps and nothing??
Ok so I think maybe I got a bad stick I will have to return it for another. I reinstalled the two 256 sticks from before. turn on the computer and BEEP BEEP BEEP!!
Take them out look at them and reinstall again. BEEP BEEP BEEP!!
So Igo on the net and look up the Beep thing, it says that 3 short beeps means that the computer is not seeing the first 65K of mermory and that the stick may be bad?
So Now I have no computer and it sits dead
I wonder if anyone has any ideas?? I have a friend that says he things the motherboard has craped out??
But why?? All I did was change the memory and I have done this many times!!
Ok I have vented anough. Does anyone have any other ideas?? I am down to a little 233 mhz laptop!!
Thanks all!!
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