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~Mike Hollywood
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
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