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Laptop help

  • 11-09-2006 4:31pm
    #1
    unnameduser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭


    Have an old laptop
    Its a dell latitude celeron cpt. Feck all memory 128mB, Feck all hard drive 10gB!

    Anyhu its been crashing lately. While in use it would suddenly show a blue screen with an error message. It shows for so little time that i cant even read the error message. Then the screen goes blank and i have to reset the computer.

    Now i thought that there must be some sort of software problem so i reformatted and then reload the operating software (win 2k) and starting to surf the net to download avg etc etc and the crashing has started again! Im thinking it may be a hard drive problem and might have to replace it.

    Opinions would be appreciated!


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    You probably should get some extra RAM for it while you are upgrading the hard drive. The RAM could be faulty also, try running Memtest and see if it brings up any errors.


  • #3
    unnameduser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    ah ruu! always to the rescue. the error message only appears for a split second but i managed to read "beginning memory dump" i think. this help?

    Ill try the ram test


  • #4
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    The ram test will take a while but if there are no errors there, try to get the error code from the message if possible. Does it happen at a certain time or just at random? A few google searches suggest updating your video card driver. Have you added any new hardware lately?


  • #5
    unnameduser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    The laptop froze when it was working hard / busy. I put an old 64mB ram into it and now it seems to be working fine.

    Any ideas how much a new 128mB or 256mB ram is?


  • #6
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Probably not a whole lot, check out Crucial and use the configurator there, put in the details of your laptop and it will bring up what RAM you need and price. Check 7dayshop.com and shop4memory.com also, they should have configurators on their site too.


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  • #7
    unnameduser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    coolio. thanks again ruu


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