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bbwannabe · 11-08-2005, 14:13

Hey all.

Got another comp problem this time for the desktop, so I hope you lot can help me out again like you did before. Thanks in advance.

The problems i've been having are:
computer kept randomly crashing BSOD, no indication of what was causing it, sometimes tcpip.sys, sometimes usbport.sys, sometimes nothing mentioned at all.
I decided enough was enough and set out to reformat the drive clean and get it back to factory settings.
Unfortunately that didn't work and the process locked up half way through. Now it can't find an OS on the drive, and I can't continue on with the reformatting either.

So i'm trying to work my way through to whats causing this current issue and why...

I was using windows diagnosis tool to check RAM and after a couple of passes, the screen locked up. So just taking a guess but I think the RAM could be at fault. I've taken them out but I don't know the exact specs of them to order new ones, so was wondering if you guys and gals knew.

All I know is that they are DIMMS, SDRAM types, 2 sticks of 128MB. I don't know whether just that is needed or I need more info or not (don't know my max memory capability either). I tried searching model type but no luck (compaq presario 5032 UK - can only seem to find a 5032 which is pretty different to the UK one).

Thanks.

Oh and the other issue could be the HD at fault, but its much harder to remove it than the RAM so im going with ram first than HD.

11-08-2005, 14:13	#1
bbwannabe Inactive Join Date: May 2004 Age: 42 Posts: 567	RAM Memory? Hey all. Got another comp problem this time for the desktop, so I hope you lot can help me out again like you did before. Thanks in advance. The problems i've been having are: computer kept randomly crashing BSOD, no indication of what was causing it, sometimes tcpip.sys, sometimes usbport.sys, sometimes nothing mentioned at all. I decided enough was enough and set out to reformat the drive clean and get it back to factory settings. Unfortunately that didn't work and the process locked up half way through. Now it can't find an OS on the drive, and I can't continue on with the reformatting either. So i'm trying to work my way through to whats causing this current issue and why... I was using windows diagnosis tool to check RAM and after a couple of passes, the screen locked up. So just taking a guess but I think the RAM could be at fault. I've taken them out but I don't know the exact specs of them to order new ones, so was wondering if you guys and gals knew. All I know is that they are DIMMS, SDRAM types, 2 sticks of 128MB. I don't know whether just that is needed or I need more info or not (don't know my max memory capability either). I tried searching model type but no luck (compaq presario 5032 UK - can only seem to find a 5032 which is pretty different to the UK one). Thanks. Oh and the other issue could be the HD at fault, but its much harder to remove it than the RAM so im going with ram first than HD.