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Originally Posted by ScaredLittleBoy  Okay last night on the advice of HG I removed the RAM. I left one stick in, and it seems okay. It restarts and turns on straight away (no monitor trouble) and CPU usage is between 2-5%. Could it all have been caused by the RAM though? |
I though you did that when I suggested it with each stick? I guess you put the bad one back in and didn't try the other?
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Originally Posted by ScaredLittleBoy I'll try with both sticks in when I get in. The other stick seems to put CPU usage at 100% when I put it in  but that could just be chance; ie something else decided to choke the CPU while that RAM was in. |
RAM can produce some weird effects. Usually it will cause the machine to be unstable, lock up or blue screen. If taking that stick out causes it to run normally try it with stat stick alone. If it chokes you have your culprit, if it runs OK then it suggests a chipset issue on the mainboard.
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Originally Posted by ScaredLittleBoy Anyway hopefully its fixed now but I would like to have 1GB of RAM again instead of 512MB |
Buy another stick, try to get crucial again or better buy a 1gb stick. It's ridiculously cheap these days!