I got a computer from a Computer Fair for £20 (yeah I know, you get what you pay for), and whenever I tried to install operating systems on it, the installers threw up errors and I ended up with problems, until I got Vista Home Basic working.
At first I thought it was a problem with the DVD drive I installed (the one that came with the computer was dead), but it had worked fine in the computer I had it in before. I checked it was all plugged in properly and tried to install Ubuntu, only for that to go all weird on me too, crashing with different errors and defaulting to live disk mode, which wouldn't let me do anything.
However, I just booted it back to the HD, and Vista gave me an error too, something about how the Windows environment had crashed, and that then caused everyone to go to Windows Classic mode and back again for a few seconds.
It then hit me... Maybe the problem is bad RAM?
What do you think? The computer is an eMachines 2240, it has 512MB RAM, 2.66GHz Celeron D, and a 40GB HD.
At first I thought it was a problem with the DVD drive I installed (the one that came with the computer was dead), but it had worked fine in the computer I had it in before. I checked it was all plugged in properly and tried to install Ubuntu, only for that to go all weird on me too, crashing with different errors and defaulting to live disk mode, which wouldn't let me do anything.
However, I just booted it back to the HD, and Vista gave me an error too, something about how the Windows environment had crashed, and that then caused everyone to go to Windows Classic mode and back again for a few seconds.
It then hit me... Maybe the problem is bad RAM?
What do you think? The computer is an eMachines 2240, it has 512MB RAM, 2.66GHz Celeron D, and a 40GB HD.
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