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    Problems with Ram Upgrades. Help Please

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Dlema7, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. Dlema7

    Dlema7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Im running vista x64 on a Sager NP2090.

    I added a stick of ram to my laptop, going from 2gb to 4gb. Everything booted up and seemed to work fine. Windows recognized the extra stick.

    Soon however, Windows Crashed and went into rolling restart mode.

    After trying to boot into Sade Mode, windows would hang crcdisk.sys (which seems to be related to a slew of other problems)

    Since i left my recovery disk at school, I DL'd a vista repair disk to solve the problem, but to no avail. I ran diagnostics on each stick and it seems like the new ram is defective, but when I take it out and have the original in its old slot, I still get rolling restarts.

    Any ideas?
     
    Dlema7, Dec 30, 2008
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  2. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Are you getting any sort of error messages? Can you reinstall the OS with your repair disc?
     
    atbnet, Dec 30, 2008
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  3. S_P_Q_R

    S_P_Q_R Notebook Evangelist

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    Try taking the hard drive out and booting off that disc, this has helped others with this sort of looping boot cycle, once you're passed into windows, shut down and reinsert your HDD. I hope it works for you.
     
    S_P_Q_R, Dec 30, 2008
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