Here’s a good one for all of you….
I recently purchased a used Acer Aspire 3002 LCi, Sempron 2800+, 1.6 GHz Laptop to use in my growing business.
I contacted Acer and aquired all the operating software to bring this back to what it was brand new.
Here’s my problem… After reinstalling all of the software (XP-Pro and all the drivers and software) Uopdating everything via the Microsoft update website and Acer’s website, the system worked great…or so I thought.
After letting it sit overnight the first time I started recieving upon the next start-up the following message…
>>>Registry files have become corupt or are damaged… Files have been backed up from another loaction<<< Then the system started up and ran great. I then powered it down after I was done using it and the following day went to restart it and this time got a brand new..... >>> System files are not at location../configuration/system32…. Press “r” to recover system files or reinstall windows to fix problem <<< Now I played this game for the last 3 days of back and forth reinstalling and repairing the registry before I decided to dig into my laptop a little bit more. Upon opening up the memory compartment I found that it had 2 DDR266MHz-256MB soDimms installed into it. Through a little digging at the Acer website I discovered that the laptop is supposed to be using DDR333MHz soDimms. Here is the MILLION dollar question..... Will using the installed memory (DDR266MHz) that came with the used laptop create this problem I'm having. I have downloaded the microsoft memory tester program and used it and found no problems with the memory its self, but I'm trying to acertain if its the memory thats giving me all the problems. I have found out talking to a few other people that Acer laptops are picky about whats installed in them... but I would like some more feedback from here before I spend money on memory.Especially if my problem is actually a motherboard instead.
