A computer was recently brought to my attention that is having problems booting. During POST the following is being displayed:
“Memory write/read failure at
Decreasing available memory” (twice then the following once just before trying to boot WinXP)
“The amount of system memory has changed.”
This box has 2x 256 RDIMM in a Dell box. In BIOS, it shows only 320MB of RAM. If a mem stick went bad it should only show 256MB or 0MB right? For some odd reason it is between the actual 512MB present and the 256 of one failed. The PC will start to boot to XP, but hangs around the AGP load. One of the boots I noticed a blue screen flicker before it automatically rebooted. I have tried Safe Mode(Common and Cmd), Last Known Good, as well as looking at the BIOS settings for the Physical Memory and AGP Memory.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance:)
