Posted: 11/16/2006 7:58:09 AM EDT
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A few weeks ago I decided that my wifes five year old HP desktop needed a little RAM boost from its measly 256. I had two sticks of 256 RAM that I had put in a previous hp desktop. I installed one new stick and left the original in its slot. When I turned the computer I received the blue safe mode screen. After that I could not get the computer to budge. In any mode that I tried starting it instantly locked up. I pulled the new card out and tried booting up again to no prevail. I then pulled the original card out and stuck in one new card and then both new cards, both with no success. Is there anything I can try to get the damn thing to work. I know its a dinasaur and that I should just get a new one, but it has all the music she ripped for the ipod and she is pissed that I "broke" her computer. Any help is much appreciated. |
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If I were you I would pull the hard drive, buy an external enclosure for it, replace the pc and move the mp3's to the new pc. If putting the computer back to original configuration doesn't help, you may have toasted the memory, the mobo or something else. You might try clearing the bios with the pc in the original configuration. I would not put any $$$$ into that machine. Good Luck. |
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i've had that happen a couple times. could be faulty memory, memory might not have been compatible with your board. could have been installed incorrectly.. either way if the data is important take it somewhere and have them backup the data for you. then save towards a new system |
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does it beep when you turn it on? if so, search google for "bios beep codes HP [model number]" where [model number] is the model. another option is to download this file -->www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.2.iso.zip, unzip it, and burn it to a cd as an ISO (also called a disk image) file. put the CD in the troublesome computer and boot from it. It will run a memory diagnostic program. |