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Nov 14th, 2009

I have 2 512mb sticks
I looked in my bios and it says I have 787mb extended memory
what does that mean?

also I checked for viruses with many programs and I have not found anything

I used a program today and it says my cpu is running at 799mhz
I know for sure that I have a 2.0ghz amd turion
what would cause this?

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Originally Posted by Xlphos

Hello, Did you install any new software or updates shortly before the blue screen?

You say you have no viruses. Was there any? or did you not find any?

As for you thoughs on RAM can you do a memory test? some linux distros have a memory test function there maybe other programs out there I am not aware of. You may want to get a light linux distro to test the memory.

- Let us know how it goes.

No I have not installed any updates

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Originally Posted by mike25620

I have 2 512mb sticks
I looked in my bios and it says I have 787mb extended memory
what does that mean?

also I checked for viruses with many programs and I have not found anything

I used a program today and it says my cpu is running at 799mhz
I know for sure that I have a 2.0ghz amd turion
what would cause this?

I think you will find that your video has been allocated the rest of the memory.
799mhz, I do not know! what program did you run?

Repair your machine easily, make your own FREE boot CD.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
Once I thought I was wrong but I was mistaken.
Bob,

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Nov 16th, 2009

hi from PH,
try to remove your unnecessary files to make your Hard drive free up...
try to clean your parts

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Nov 16th, 2009

that is your hard drive extended memory each drive reserve 3 or 5 % for the virtual memory,your bios show it.

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Nov 18th, 2009

ok so i was going to test my sticks of ram but before i could do anything, i turned on my computer and ...........nothing.
it posts but nothing more than that. it never shows the windows loading screen
is my harddrive locked up?
is all of my ram shot?
what happened?
i will check back soon but that was my only computer

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Originally Posted by mike25620

ok so i was going to test my sticks of ram but before i could do anything, i turned on my computer and ...........nothing.
it posts but nothing more than that. it never shows the windows loading screen
is my harddrive locked up?
is all of my ram shot?
what happened?
i will check back soon but that was my only computer

i still havent gotten it to work but i am on a live cd and it works fine
does this mean its my harddrive?

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Nov 30th, 2009

If you have a live cd try running a memtest, usually shown as you boot from CD.

Can you access your hdd from the live cd?

can you find out what is being display for your system spec from the live cd?

I don't mind helping but please mark your thread as solved once the problem is sorted. If you figure it out tell us how you did it, don't just abandon your thread!