ok my friend has a desktop with an AMD-K6 3D/300 processor (sorry dont know a lot about computers) n theres an error saying memory test failure. It happened after she installed aol 9 which i beleive is too much 4 her computer. I mean system requirements are not met. So her windows 98 edition wont start up. How do we get out of it? troubleshooting help pls.

QUOTE (rollaboy @ Nov 14 2003, 03:00 PM) ok my friend has a desktop with an AMD-K6 3D/300 processor (sorry dont know a lot about computers) n theres an error saying memory test failure. It happened after she installed aol 9 which i beleive is too much 4 her computer. I mean system requirements are not met. So her windows 98 edition wont start up. How do we get out of it? troubleshooting help pls.
Sounds like her memory died.

Do you have any other computers? Try swapping out the memory in her system with some other RAM that you know is working.

For a system that ancient, though, an entire system upgrade is what she really needs. Your friend could get something much faster for very cheap. I just saw today someone selling a 1.4ghz system for only around $125.

I do. Its a pentium 4. will i be able to swap them?

QUOTE (rollaboy @ Nov 15 2003, 10:09 AM) I do. Its a pentium 4. will i be able to swap them?
I doubt it... i think most P4's used either DDR or RDRAM. Check the stick and see what type it is. If it's SDRAM (pc100/133), then yeah. Anything else and no.

If you have more than one stick(currently in the K6-2 machine), try using only one at a time. You could also try to relax RAM-timings a bit in BIOS.

Unless that P4 is pretty old, it will prolly use RDRAM or DDR-SDRAM - those are 184-pin sticks and they won't physically fit in a SDRAM(168-pin)-slot.

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ok im just thinking of buying that memory thing. can someone pls tell me what i should be looking for? SDRAM? is it easy to replace? thanks for all the help

What mobo do you have?

If your mobo supports SDRAM(most of them do), then get PC133 SDRAM(PC100 would be enough but that is pretty rare and it doesn't make a difference anyways) - it's a 168-pin DIMM(Dual Inline Memory Module) and yes, it's very easy to install/replace
And make sure you don't get a too high capacity stick(like 256MB or more) as your chipset prolly can't handle that.

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allright, thanks a lot. I checked n tigerdirect.com they have them for like $20-$80