steve lawson
New Member
Hello all.
This is still the same issue that I have had for ages now, but thought it was fixed.
I initially had a problem of the Computer locking up and having to reboot. There were no Viruses on the Machine. I had a lot of help on the Forum but couldn't nail the problem down.
I eventually took it into Work and let a Colleague have a play with it.
When he gave me the Machine back, he said that the problem had been a mis-match of Memory in the slots. He said that the Slots had to have paired Memory in the Slots. I had 1GB in Slot 1 and 500MB in Slot 2. I now have just the 1GB in Slot 1 and nothing in Slot 2
The Machine worked fine for a couple of weeks and then just started playing up again. Now when it just decides to reboot a picture of the Mother Board is dispayed on the Screen P4 V 8000-X with options to Press DEL to enter Setup or Press tab to enter Message Bios.
Also, once I have the Machine rebooted, if I move the Mouse over the Start Button and click, it locks up again.
I am now getting the impression that there is some kind of bad connection causing the problem, but not sure where to start. I have tried pressing all the connections I can see, to no avail.
I have now refitted the 500MB to Slot 2 because I think that that was a bit of a Red Herring. These problems are present with either 1 or 2 Memory Cards present.
Any more suggestions, or do I bin it!
Steve.
This is still the same issue that I have had for ages now, but thought it was fixed.
I initially had a problem of the Computer locking up and having to reboot. There were no Viruses on the Machine. I had a lot of help on the Forum but couldn't nail the problem down.
I eventually took it into Work and let a Colleague have a play with it.
When he gave me the Machine back, he said that the problem had been a mis-match of Memory in the slots. He said that the Slots had to have paired Memory in the Slots. I had 1GB in Slot 1 and 500MB in Slot 2. I now have just the 1GB in Slot 1 and nothing in Slot 2
The Machine worked fine for a couple of weeks and then just started playing up again. Now when it just decides to reboot a picture of the Mother Board is dispayed on the Screen P4 V 8000-X with options to Press DEL to enter Setup or Press tab to enter Message Bios.
Also, once I have the Machine rebooted, if I move the Mouse over the Start Button and click, it locks up again.
I am now getting the impression that there is some kind of bad connection causing the problem, but not sure where to start. I have tried pressing all the connections I can see, to no avail.
I have now refitted the 500MB to Slot 2 because I think that that was a bit of a Red Herring. These problems are present with either 1 or 2 Memory Cards present.
Any more suggestions, or do I bin it!
Steve.