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July 14th, 2005, 07:54 AM
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A friend of mine just got a stick of 2nd hand PC133 RAM... when he plugged it in, and boot, the screen shows weird text? some English, and some symbols...
Is the RAM the issue here? | 
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July 14th, 2005, 07:56 AM
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and what is the os if i may ask? | |
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July 14th, 2005, 07:58 AM
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he tested on another stick of RAM and it seems to boot fine though, guess it must be that particular one.. :P | |
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July 14th, 2005, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by silvest A friend of mine just got a stick of 2nd hand PC133 RAM... when he plugged it in, and boot, the screen shows weird text? some English, and some symbols...
Is the RAM the issue here? | Isn't this video card related? I've switched video cards before and had this problem, although there might have been a problem with the power as I switched PSUs and it cleared up.
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July 15th, 2005, 04:52 PM
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Can you get into the bios?
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July 15th, 2005, 04:56 PM
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yeah i think so... it boots like normal but just can't see words properly...
for example, if it crashes, there'll be the screen asking if you wanna boot in safe mode, or start windows normally etc... then can't realli see words.. some are english, and some are funny symbols ??? | |
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July 15th, 2005, 04:57 PM
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Im guessing the ram might be corrupted. It cant hold data correctly. Where did you get the ram? | |
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