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Primary Slave Failure after adding RAM

gr34t3st

New Age Retro Hippie
Here's my dilemma:

I obtained some new RAM for my older PC.
I put in the new RAM but to do so, I had to unplug my hard drive to reach it.
With the new RAM in, I plugged my hard drive back in.
I booted up my computer and got an odd error.
The screen was a memory test. It showed my new RAM addition to the total.
It also said "Primary Slave Test Failed".
I assumed it was the RAM or something so I shut down, pulled the RAM, and rebooted.
The same error came up, the only difference being the subtraction from total RAM.
I thought it might be my hard drive so I plugged in an older hard drive.
Same error.
I thought it might be my Master/Slave cable (IDE cable I think).
I replace the cable with one from a really old computer.
I ended up getting a "Windows did not boot successfully" with the menu for booting in Safe mode, etc.

Am I missing the cause of this problem or what? It was running perfectly fine until I added the RAM to it.. after that I got all of these errors.
 

birdman

New Member
reset your bios?

try to take out your old ram and just use the new ram.

also, try the windows recovery console with the settings you used to get the "windows could not boot" error.
 

Lachrymose

smokeMeth();
IDE slots can break easy, as my stepdad said as he saw me hotswapping my Xbox hdd.

I wouldn't take his word for it though as I was pretty rough on it.

EDIT: Was the ram DDR2 that you put in a DDR1 slot? I saw go with birdmans idea.
 
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