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HP Laptop will not boot with two memory modules
by Bill
(Mahopac, NY)
I have an HP Pavilion XT1170 laptop which has suddenly started locking up and then not going through POST. I found that if I removed the external 256MB RAM that the system would run using the internal RAM. I thought this was a simple case of a bad RAM module. However, when I swapped the two RAM modules, the system still worked. I then left out the RAM from the internal slot and tried each one in the external slot and both worked! However, if I plugged both modules in, the system would lock up during POST. This tells me it is not the memory and not the memory slots.
Once, after letting the PC set overnight, it succeeded in booting with both memory modules and started running MEMTST86. This ran for about a minute and then the PC locked up.
Have you any idea where to proceed to determine where the problem is (i.e., motherboard, processor, etc)?
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