I am running XP on a Sony Vaio computer with 2 sticks of 512 ram.
It started shutting down and restarting about 10 days ago all of a sudden.
It gave me options of start in "Safe Mode, Safe w/networking, Regular windows, and Restart with last known good configure." no matter what you choose the windows screen starts then it just shuts off and restarts.
Anyway. I thought it was a ram problem and removed 1 of my 512's as I have 2. It starts fine and runs fine. I then swapped out the 512s and both run fine. I then tried each stick in each slot seperately and they both are fine. But if I put them both in at the same time it starts the restart thing again.
I then bought a 1gig ram stick and stuck it in by itself. It does the restart thing again. So apparently it won't accept over 512 ram.
I am going to get a XP disk and try a repair install but I was hoping someone might have another suggestion as to what I might try ??
Thanks for possibly helping.
Dan II
It started shutting down and restarting about 10 days ago all of a sudden.
It gave me options of start in "Safe Mode, Safe w/networking, Regular windows, and Restart with last known good configure." no matter what you choose the windows screen starts then it just shuts off and restarts.
Anyway. I thought it was a ram problem and removed 1 of my 512's as I have 2. It starts fine and runs fine. I then swapped out the 512s and both run fine. I then tried each stick in each slot seperately and they both are fine. But if I put them both in at the same time it starts the restart thing again.
I then bought a 1gig ram stick and stuck it in by itself. It does the restart thing again. So apparently it won't accept over 512 ram.
I am going to get a XP disk and try a repair install but I was hoping someone might have another suggestion as to what I might try ??
Thanks for possibly helping.
Dan II
