I am getting windows 2000 bootup errors when trying to upgrade cpu and memory

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I have an AMD Athlon xp1800 processor and a 256 pc2700 133 mhz ram chip running on windows 2000 on a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP KT400 mainboard and it runs fine, I recently tried to upgrade the processor with an AMD Thoroughbred Athlon 2400 and the ram with a 512 pc2700 133 mhz ram chip, during post test it recognises both the new chips but as soon as windows 2000 starts to boot I get errors like: "cant write to memory, system configuration errors," and then it will reboot the computer by itself. I have the latest bios update for the mainboard and ive double check with the mainboard company and it should support these chips with no problems.. I then just put back my old processor and tried to boot up with that and the new ram itself and still it will not boot into windows, I get a blue screen that says system configuration errors, or it will lock up before getting into windows... How can I resolve these windows error issues so I can upgrade the Ram and processor?

 

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----- Tinanae wrote: -----

I have an AMD Athlon xp1800 processor and a 256 pc2700 133 mhz ram chip running on windows 2000 on a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP KT400 mainboard and it runs fine, I recently tried to upgrade the processor with an AMD Thoroughbred Athlon 2400 and the ram with a 512 pc2700 133 mhz ram chip, during post test it recognises both the new chips but as soon as windows 2000 starts to boot I get errors like: "cant write to memory, system configuration errors," and then it will reboot the computer by itself. I have the latest bios update for the mainboard and ive double check with the mainboard company and it should support these chips with no problems.. I then just put back my old processor and tried to boot up with that and the new ram itself and still it will not boot into windows, I get a blue screen that says system configuration errors, or it will lock up before getting into windows... How can I resolve these windows error issues so I can upgrade the Ram and processor?


Does anyone here have any ideas on how I can fix this problem? please help me out if you do...
Thanx!

 

[Bob I]

IF the memory is NOT defective, you may have to do an inplace upgrade
from the Win2K CD to get it working.