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Old 11-16-2005, 03:55 PM   #3
Luvian
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Join Date: June 27, 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Originally posted by Bungleau:
Could have been a loose connection in the screen, mouse, or keyboard. That could cause that kind of grief.

Unless... does it work when you boot without connecting to your network? There may be something that's doing a network check that's hanging. I know I'm stretching for it, but it's a possibility. A full malware check may be in order.
Well at his house I tried the computer on two workplace, with two different set of keyboard/screen, and the mouse is USB, so it's pretty hard to mess that up.

I could use the keyboard in the bios and all other screens before windows start, like the screen that ask you if you want Safe mode and all that. It could be the network and I considered it, but I tried without it connected and it didn't work.

There's one thing that's suspicious to me. I opened the box to look at all the connections to see if something got disconected. One of the RAM slot seem to have a defect, one of it's thing that secure the RAM bar seem a little lose, and the RAM doesn't get pushed as far inside the slot as what I'm used to either. It end up a little higher than the other RAM bar once inserted. I looked and it's as far as it goes.

I've had faulty RAM before, and as far as I remember, the problem he is getting doesn't look like the problems I was getting back then because of that. Could it still be it?

[ 11-16-2005, 03:56 PM: Message edited by: Luvian ]
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