Memory Upgrade

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Clayton

I have 2 pieces of memory that I know is good which I am trying to upgrade a
Compaq Presario 700 but everytime I put these memory chips in it gives me a
PCI.SYS error and to reinstall windows, removing them is fine and widows
starts ok.
one stick is a second-hand one which is 128MB and the other is brand new
which is 256MB, and are both designed for the 700 model notebook.
Any ideas?

Thanks
Clayton
 
Also add the with any of these modules in the PCI.SYS screen which is black
with white text flashes
 
Clayton said:
I have 2 pieces of memory that I know is good which I am trying to upgrade a
Compaq Presario 700 but everytime I put these memory chips in it gives me a
PCI.SYS error and to reinstall windows, removing them is fine and widows
starts ok.
one stick is a second-hand one which is 128MB and the other is brand new
which is 256MB, and are both designed for the 700 model notebook.
Any ideas?
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Either the memory modules are defective or you are not installing them
correctly.

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Thanks, but I do know how to install memory and the second-hand memory is
also giving me the same errors, I think it could be the memory slot on the
motherboard?
 
Then if the 256 is new i'd suggest contacting supplier, as if its designed
for your sys it should work.
Its not impossible the a new module is faulty.

There isnt anything relevent in the bios, re using mem.slots?

You might I guess, if you can access it, try clearing the cmos, but you
might want to ensure *before* trying that you can obtain any hw/chipset
drivers etc for the sys, prior to doing so.
 
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