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Ducati998ss

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I own a HP computer running service pack 2. Recently i upgraded the memory. After the upgrade i started running into a lot of problems. Some time my internet would not work. The computer will shut off on it own. And the today and yesterday the computer kept rebooting it self at different times for no reason. I ran anti virus and found no Viruses on the computer. Now i thought i may have had bad memory so i switched the old memory back in. The computer ran fine for awhile and then shut it self off. Now i cant get the computer to turn back on. I would press the power button and it will turn on but the screen wil stay dark. I check all connections and everything is connected properly. Can some help me out. I have no idea whats happening to the computer.
 
run speedfan to check that your voltages are within 5% of nominal, especially look at the +12v rail. (check temps also) After that run a memory intensive and cpu intensive prime95 torture test to narrow down. If your memory test fails, try increasing your memory voltage or relaxing the timings a little bit. Tutorials for doing those last few are located in the overclocking forums.
 
the thing was working enough to get me to the desktop right before the crash... wouldn't the hardware specs be ok if that were the case? and how could bad memory precipitate such a malfunction in hardware if it was removed? if it makes any difference i did copy some of the boot files to a temp folder while in repair mode a la charlie white's suggestion (he's got some website about how he'll take you right out of the nuisance that is the blue screen of death and fix the comp right up)
could it have been a coincidence that the memory was installed right when these problems started and thus not related to the memory issues?
 
could it be that it has cooled off some? how long should i let it run before hibernating or shutting down?
 
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