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by Prometheus
Sun May 07, 2006 6:45 am
Forum: RAM compatibility with BIOS
Topic: Newbie needs very basic help
Replies: 8
Views: 7519

I ran MemTest86 with both the new and old RAM modules in and got over 2200+ errors before I stopped the test (it had run for about 25 minutes) following the suggestion of the ReadMe, I traded the places of the 2 RAM modules and got only about 220+ errors (but only running it for about 22 minutes thi...
by Prometheus
Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:22 am
Forum: RAM compatibility with BIOS
Topic: Newbie needs very basic help
Replies: 8
Views: 7519

I must apologize, I made a very important typo there. Its a804n not a840n, Sorry. I went to the hp page for this and looked for there bios updates, of which they had one. I downloaded and attempted to install it but midway thorugh installation it gave me an error message that said it was unable to i...
by Prometheus
Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:04 am
Forum: RAM compatibility with BIOS
Topic: Newbie needs very basic help
Replies: 8
Views: 7519

Newbie needs very basic help

For Christmas I recently recieve an HP pavillion a840n as a gift from my parents since my older brother would be taking our computer with him to college. Up until this point he had maintained most of the computer things in the house with the exception of our network which I also knew how to maintain...