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by ric111

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A client has an older Compaq mini-tower, 600 P3, 128 Ram, 9G HD, W2K Pro. A few weeks ago started seeing magnified graphic at shutdown, upper right corner of a screen with a Printer Icon and a Select Icon. Graphic now has moved to startup. Boots through non-passworded login screen, flashes this graphic, locks up with hourglass showing. I cleaned startup, registry run, runonce, etc. in 3 locations. Boots fine in safe mode. BIOS does not show HD. If boot Norton IS CD, C: drive is not seen. Boot W2K Pro CD, do emergency repair, no help. Any suggestions? thanks.

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by otl

Saw same type of problem with a mini tower (registry error), would only occassionally boot properly in normal mode and would boot fine to DOS/safe mode. After scratching my head, trying everything else including cleaning SIMM slots and changing the Ram was about to give up and trash it. Came accross perfectly matched ram and stuck it in, PC is totally happy with it, boots quickly and with no errors.

Saw same problem with work Desktop, Ram upgrade to 60ns ram and OEM suggested 70ns would not boot without errors. Replaced with matched 70ns and worked fine, would only work correctly with exact manufacturer matched ram.

BTW - Both were Compaq one with EDO the other SDRAM.

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