Memory Issue

[phlip67]

Today I purchased a memory module for an older laptop (Model No. Compaq Presario 1500US). The module I purchased was a 512mb Corsair Value Select DDR-266mhz stick.

When I put it into my laptop's free slot it booted fine and worked for three hours. When I rebooted it, however, it displayed the windows loading screen with the blue bar, and then immediately bluescreened and rebooted. The STOP error is displayed for a fraction of a second, so I can't read any information on it (Unfortunately)

I tried rebooting with only the original stick in and it got the same error. Same thing with only the new module, and the same thing when I tried safe mode.

Do you think this is a memory issue or could it just be that my 7 year old machine has just given up the ghost?

 

[raybay]

It needs and will only use the DDR PC2700, which I would guess is 266MHz... You should have two modules of 512 mb... I would run them one at a time to see if one of them is bad... or else run MemTest86 for four hours or seven passes which ever is longer, one module at a time, to assure that one of the modules is not bad.
New memory can be bad, just like old memory can.

 

[phlip67]

PC2100 is what the original stick that was in the computer said so that is what I purchased.

The ram stick however isn't bad. I put it into another laptop and it ran and booted fine.

The error message I am now getting (on the old one) reads UNOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

Thanks for the reply though

 

[raybay]

It appears you have a failed or failing hard drive.