I rebooted by PC today and it is freezing at the BIOS screen. This is a Dell Vostro 410 I purchased 3 or 4 years ago. Any ideas on what could be causing this or what I can do?
I pulled out both memory sticks and cleaned the contacts with an eraser and put them back in. PC booted up. I'll reboot it in a little while to see if it hangs up again.
I've seen a lot of issues with memory not being properly seated or having grunge on the contacts lately. Me thinks RAM manufacturers are cutting corners on the gold plating for the contacts.
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Well my PC was shutdown and I could not get it to restart. Ran Memtest86, but I couldn't tell if the RAM was bad or not. I bought two new sticks of RAM (2 GB) for $30.00 and installed them. At first the PC would not restart, but after allowing Windows to repair itself, it started and is running fine.