A blue sreen

[sirhums]

I fitted a Ram chip in my IBM DESKTOP machine and when i boot the machine, it showed a blue screen.  When I fitted the original Ram that was there, I still had a blue sreen. please how do I come out of this situation.Help me.I am using windows 2000.

[patio]

What type of RAM did you install and what type does the machine take ? ?
Did you check this beforehand ? ?

[hedgehog88]

Is the RAM seated properly? Meaning its properly secured in its slot with both plastic clips locking the ends?

[Brett21]

is this a case of clearing the memory when changing over ram?? try this...take both out.....so nothings in...unplug ur pc from the wall socket...ie no power....now press the pc's power button (u should hear it try to boot but cant cus its not connected to any power) continue holding in for 30 secs odd to clear the memory.

at this point either...put the original memory back in plug the computer back in and turn it on...or put the new ram back in and turn it on...

if u still get a blue screen with the new ram then its not compatable...so repeat the process and put the original back in.

[Computer_Commando]

is this a case of clearing the memory when changing over ram??...

You're confusing clearing RAM with clearing CMOS memory.

[patio]

Meanwhile...he hasn't returned...which makes all this speculation.

[sirhums]

The RAM I am using is,
16M*64 SDRAM.
128MB. DDR. 133MHZ. CL2  AND

128MB. DDR. PC2100. CL2.5. 2.5V V  (16MX64).

I am using IBM desktop. model 831354. serial: KDFF3MV

Blue screen error code:  ***STOP: 0x000000A5 (0x00000001,0x818ac5a8,0x00000000,0x00000000)
The Ram is properly seated.

[hedgehog88]

The RAM I am using is,
16M*64 SDRAM.
128MB. DDR. 133MHZ. CL2  AND

128MB. DDR. PC2100. CL2.5. 2.5V V  (16MX64).

I am using IBM desktop. model 831354. serial: KDFF3MV

Blue screen error code:  ***STOP: 0x000000A5 (0x00000001,0x818ac5a8,0x00000000,0x00000000)
The Ram is properly seated.

Woah, take about old

Did it BSOD before replacing it with the new ones?

Could it be IBM RAM set specific parameters to only accept certain vendors of RAM? Or maybe not even accept any new RAM at all? Have you googled any details to your computer model? I would believe old computers, specially retail  assembled wouldn't want consumers to be able to interchange components within, thus to keep up their business.

[a117yogi]

you may have bent a pin

[OpenSource]

The cause of the A5 Stop message is always errors in the ACPI BIOS. There is nothing that you can fix at the level of the operating system.

Here is what MS says about that particular argument (the 0x00000001) in the A5 stop message:

This argument is defined as an ACPI root resources failure. More specifically, ACPI could not find the system control interrupt (SCI) vector in any of the resources that ACPI received at startup. SCI is a special interrupt type that provides a more efficient way to deal with problems that are normally handled by system management interrupts (SMI). If SCIs cannot be initialized, ACPI cannot function. This can occur if no entry for this IRQ is found in the list or if no IRQ resource list was found at all.

Reset your CMOS.  Try updating your BIOS.

[patio]

I suspect an install of the wrong RAM.....

But i've been wrong before...