Hi,
I was given an old armada laptop, P2 200 Mhz, with 32 megs on on-board
memory, win98se and it was working fine, although slowly. So, i bought a 32
meg sodimm at a computer show last week for $5 (PC100) and put it in, and
viola! now I have 64 megs and all's well, this was a week ago. In the
meantime I had ordered a 64 meg sodimm, PC100, from ebay ,and I waited for
that to arrive before my next step, upgrading to ME. Yesterday, the 64Meg
Arrived. I installed it, and the laptop hasn't run properly since. I think
it is just a co-incidence, and not related to that sodimm. Here is what it
does:
hen you go to start it, it partially boots, and then shuts down, and tries
to boot again, and shuts down and restarts again. It does this endlessly
sometimes reaching the desktop and allowing me a minute or two of control,
but then it restarts. I am unable to "turn it off" because when power is
applied it enters this looping routine. This happens if I am on AC with the
battery in, or out, and when it is running only on the battery.
I have removed, and then reinstalled in all combination, the sodimms to see
it that changed the behaviour of the laptop, but it doesn't.
The abberation is the same regarless of the memory configuration, and is the
same with no sodimms installed. The manual says the laptop supports up to
128 Mb of sodimms in any combination where none exceed 64 Mb, so a 32 and a
64 is an ok combo. System max is the onboard 32, plus 64, plus 64. The
bios saw both of my sodimms and registered them proberly.
Any ideas on what may be causing this would be much appriciated.
When it is rebooting, or starting up, it also makes an audible click, just
one click, but I don't know what is clicking. I suspect it is the hard
drive, but it's occuring very early in the boot sequence so I'm not sure
about that either.

Thanks,
Mike

update:
i pulled the hard drive and set it up in a usb external case, and it works
fine, so it's not the hard drive.
The clciking is coming from inside the case above the keyboard.
thanks,
mike

"~Mike Hollywood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I was given an old armada laptop, P2 200 Mhz, with 32 megs on on-board
> memory, win98se and it was working fine, although slowly. So, i bought a
> 32 meg sodimm at a computer show last week for $5 (PC100) and put it in,
> and viola! now I have 64 megs and all's well, this was a week ago. In the
> meantime I had ordered a 64 meg sodimm, PC100, from ebay ,and I waited for
> that to arrive before my next step, upgrading to ME. Yesterday, the 64Meg
> Arrived. I installed it, and the laptop hasn't run properly since. I
> think it is just a co-incidence, and not related to that sodimm. Here is
> what it does:
> hen you go to start it, it partially boots, and then shuts down, and tries
> to boot again, and shuts down and restarts again. It does this endlessly
> sometimes reaching the desktop and allowing me a minute or two of control,
> but then it restarts. I am unable to "turn it off" because when power is
> applied it enters this looping routine. This happens if I am on AC with
> the battery in, or out, and when it is running only on the battery.
> I have removed, and then reinstalled in all combination, the sodimms to
> see it that changed the behaviour of the laptop, but it doesn't.
> The abberation is the same regarless of the memory configuration, and is
> the same with no sodimms installed. The manual says the laptop supports up
> to 128 Mb of sodimms in any combination where none exceed 64 Mb, so a 32
> and a 64 is an ok combo. System max is the onboard 32, plus 64, plus 64.
> The bios saw both of my sodimms and registered them proberly.
> Any ideas on what may be causing this would be much appriciated.
> When it is rebooting, or starting up, it also makes an audible click, just
> one click, but I don't know what is clicking. I suspect it is the hard
> drive, but it's occuring very early in the boot sequence so I'm not sure
> about that either.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

A single click during boot could be the floppy drive checking to see if a
disk is inserted.
Have you run any memory tests?
Bad RAM can cause many issues.
From the sound of it, you may have messed up something else when working
with the RAM.
On a machine that old, it's hard to speculate.
Is the cooling fan working?
Overheating can cause repeated reboots & locking up.

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"~Mike Hollywood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I was given an old armada laptop, P2 200 Mhz, with 32 megs on on-board
> memory, win98se and it was working fine, although slowly. So, i bought a
> 32 meg sodimm at a computer show last week for $5 (PC100) and put it in,
> and viola! now I have 64 megs and all's well, this was a week ago. In the
> meantime I had ordered a 64 meg sodimm, PC100, from ebay ,and I waited for
> that to arrive before my next step, upgrading to ME. Yesterday, the 64Meg
> Arrived. I installed it, and the laptop hasn't run properly since. I
> think it is just a co-incidence, and not related to that sodimm. Here is
> what it does:
> hen you go to start it, it partially boots, and then shuts down, and tries
> to boot again, and shuts down and restarts again. It does this endlessly
> sometimes reaching the desktop and allowing me a minute or two of control,
> but then it restarts. I am unable to "turn it off" because when power is
> applied it enters this looping routine. This happens if I am on AC with
> the battery in, or out, and when it is running only on the battery.
> I have removed, and then reinstalled in all combination, the sodimms to
> see it that changed the behaviour of the laptop, but it doesn't.
> The abberation is the same regarless of the memory configuration, and is
> the same with no sodimms installed. The manual says the laptop supports up
> to 128 Mb of sodimms in any combination where none exceed 64 Mb, so a 32
> and a 64 is an ok combo. System max is the onboard 32, plus 64, plus 64.
> The bios saw both of my sodimms and registered them proberly.
> Any ideas on what may be causing this would be much appriciated.
> When it is rebooting, or starting up, it also makes an audible click, just
> one click, but I don't know what is clicking. I suspect it is the hard
> drive, but it's occuring very early in the boot sequence so I'm not sure
> about that either.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

Thanks for the reply. I gave up on this one, and put
the parts up for auction on ebay.


"NotMe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>A single click during boot could be the floppy drive checking to see if a
>disk is inserted.
> Have you run any memory tests?
> Bad RAM can cause many issues.
> From the sound of it, you may have messed up something else when working
> with the RAM.
> On a machine that old, it's hard to speculate.
> Is the cooling fan working?
> Overheating can cause repeated reboots & locking up.
>
> --
> A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!
> (E-Mail Removed)
> Change Alpha to Numeric to reply
> "~Mike Hollywood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:eY0UFL$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>> I was given an old armada laptop, P2 200 Mhz, with 32 megs on on-board
>> memory, win98se and it was working fine, although slowly. So, i bought a
>> 32 meg sodimm at a computer show last week for $5 (PC100) and put it in,
>> and viola! now I have 64 megs and all's well, this was a week ago. In
>> the meantime I had ordered a 64 meg sodimm, PC100, from ebay ,and I
>> waited for that to arrive before my next step, upgrading to ME.
>> Yesterday, the 64Meg Arrived. I installed it, and the laptop hasn't run
>> properly since. I think it is just a co-incidence, and not related to
>> that sodimm. Here is what it does:
>> hen you go to start it, it partially boots, and then shuts down, and
>> tries to boot again, and shuts down and restarts again. It does this
>> endlessly sometimes reaching the desktop and allowing me a minute or two
>> of control, but then it restarts. I am unable to "turn it off" because
>> when power is applied it enters this looping routine. This happens if I
>> am on AC with the battery in, or out, and when it is running only on the
>> battery.
>> I have removed, and then reinstalled in all combination, the sodimms to
>> see it that changed the behaviour of the laptop, but it doesn't.
>> The abberation is the same regarless of the memory configuration, and is
>> the same with no sodimms installed. The manual says the laptop supports
>> up to 128 Mb of sodimms in any combination where none exceed 64 Mb, so a
>> 32 and a 64 is an ok combo. System max is the onboard 32, plus 64, plus
>> 64. The bios saw both of my sodimms and registered them proberly.
>> Any ideas on what may be causing this would be much appriciated.
>> When it is rebooting, or starting up, it also makes an audible click,
>> just one click, but I don't know what is clicking. I suspect it is the
>> hard drive, but it's occuring very early in the boot sequence so I'm not
>> sure about that either.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>
>