Be very careful of static!

Touch the metal chasis of the PC before trying to do anything inside. Or wear one of those grounding wrist band thingies.

Since your troubles started with installing the new RAM, try removing it and reinstalling the old RAM (if necessary). With RAM I think you have to make sure that they are all of the same type - your new RAM may not work with your old RAM if it's faster or something. So you could also try installing the RAM modules one by one.

Posted By: BerlinCanary on November 20th 2008 at 16:41:50

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Techy help needed!! I've buggered up my computer... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 20, 16:31:47
- try this (General Chat) - eddie, Nov 20, 17:49:45
- Take it to the beer shed. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Nov 20, 17:11:49
- Hold a dinner party. (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Nov 20, 16:56:30
  - lol. Typical I.T bloke................... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Nov 20, 18:00:02
- Cheers all - i'll try most of that... i'll report back tomorrow (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 20, 16:55:17
  - I don't suppose you'll be trying mine. (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 20, 17:00:18
- take it to pcworld, those guys know they're shit (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 20, 16:54:14
  - Not only saw it, liked it. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 20, 16:56:00
- put the hard drive in the microwave on defrost overnight (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 20, 16:50:35
- Do a smell up the USB and put linux on the outside. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 20, 16:47:24
  - No can do i'm a fraid (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 20, 17:04:14
    - bugger! (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 20, 17:12:54
- put the hard drive in a freezer overnight.... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Nov 20, 16:45:06
  - ^^^give that a go (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Nov 20, 17:21:13
  - ^^^ don't do that. (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 16:49:07
  - ^^^ don't do that. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 20, 16:47:53
- I did the same thing once and found i had fried the motherboard. (General Chat) - lurd, Nov 20, 16:44:30
- Buggering the computer is very naughty (n/m) (General Chat) - maddog, Nov 20, 16:42:55
- Wash it with Flash General Cleaner. I read somewhere that (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 20, 16:37:32
  - put it in the dishwasher on glassware (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 20, 16:40:30
- Urm. God knows. Try reseating all the cables - particularly (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 20, 16:36:57
  - Be very careful of static! (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 20, 16:41:50
    - so what happens then? (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 20, 16:43:01
      - someone on justin tv sees your head fall off (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 16:47:48
        
        You're Fired! (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 20, 16:54:37
        
        I like being 10 steps behind technology (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 17:00:26
        
        Get one of these, they are small-smart (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 20, 17:06:14
  - ^^^ what he says (General Chat) - blindasabat, Nov 20, 16:41:15
  - Praps he needs to re-wire it. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 20, 16:39:40
- My old knackered thing has a reset button thing just below the power on (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 16:34:33
  - haha, this is my pc (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 16:35:56
    - good job you only go on wrath (General Chat) - lurd, Nov 20, 16:49:56
    - good job you only go on wrath (General Chat) - lurd, Nov 20, 16:49:56
    - Here's mine (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 20, 16:38:51
      - nice babbage. (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Nov 20, 16:47:06
      - Nice laptop (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 20, 16:41:04
        
        384mb of ram and 10gig (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 16:44:47
        
        Mine was about to have 2056MB RAM... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 20, 16:57:12
        
        Or 2048, even... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 20, 16:57:55
        
        the age old walk away and try again in 5 hours time might come into play (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 17:02:07
        
        Tried that 21 hours ago... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 20, 17:02:40
        
        :( (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 17:09:21
        
        Is a yahoo answers, related search, any use to you? (General Chat) - pants, Nov 20, 17:11:15
        
        mine has about 18 inches of height and about 10 inches of widthneth (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 20, 16:47:43
        
        Got it off ebay - fiver + ?12,500 p&p (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 20, 16:43:22
        
        one easy interest free installment? (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 20, 16:44:39

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