Hobnobs Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Righto, my brother bought some new ram to speed his pc up a bit. So in it goes happy happy. Boot it up, doesnt work. We discover he has a duff ram slot, not too bothered. Put the ram in the 3rd slot and its all gravy, shows up at the beginning of the boot up as 768mb of ram. We get to the log in screen, and choose his profile, it takes ageeeeees to do anything, and then comes up as some messages about activating windows (peice of shit).We click ok, and it opens a box, which i presume would have something in, but as its a computer and nothing ever works, all that is in the box is two little icons which look like a file not found sort of thing. Anyone got any idea at all why putting extra ram in will have done this? We tried without the new ram and it still does it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 I have a feeling that you have to put the serial code in. Everytime you change the hardware in your PC you have to put the XP serial number in. I think that's right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobnobs Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Hmm, didnt have to do it on mine. But yeh, thats what i was guessing, problem is, the bit where you pu the code in doesnt appear:We click ok, and it opens a box, which i presume would have something in, but as its a computer and nothing ever works, all that is in the box is two little icons which look like a file not found sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Humm. Wierd. Have you tried re-setting the CMOS? Unplug the PC from the wall and everything. Wait a few minutes. Take oyt the batterey on the motherboard. (Should look something like this:) Leave it out for about 5 minutes then put it back in and power up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 I have a feeling that you have to put the serial code in. Everytime you change the hardware in your PC you have to put the XP serial number in. I think that's right. You don't have to do that for extra ram, it's just if you change CPU/Motherboard I think. So I don't know how you've managed to do that. Maybe you knocked something else when you were installing the ram? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobnobs Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Perhaps, ill try the cmos thing? Then make sure everything is snug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Perhaps, ill try the cmos thing? Then make sure everything is snug.if it was me, i'd do it the other way round... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobnobs Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Okies, i did have a little try at that earlier anyway, so i doubt its something loose. He wanted a fresh windows install so we're trying that first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoot Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 How much ram did you try to put in, and does the motherboard support the ram? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobnobs Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Yeah, its all gravy, checked it on crucial.com beforehand.Fresh windows fixed it all, and oh my god its so much faster without all the shit that builds up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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