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D600 freezes after ram upgrade

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by monocogger, Mar 15, 2012.

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  1. monocogger

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    Hello all. I'm hoping you can help me out. I recently acquired a Dell Latitude D600 with stock 512MB of RAM. I ebayed two 1GB sticks to do an upgrade but now that I installed the sticks the laptop will lock up after a minute or so of booting up. It boots up just fine (albeit a little slowly) and I can even check the properties to make sure that it recognizes the new ram, which it does. Another symptom that may be related is that the clock needs to be reset on each startup. Can anybody help me? Or did I just waste my money on an unusable upgrade? Thanks!
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    The slow loading on bootup is Dell's RAM test. You can spam the spacebar to cancel out of it. Does it freeze with the original RAM? It could be a bad stick of RAM. The clock needing to be reset means your CMOS battery is probably going bad and needs to be changed.
     
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