
Quote: Originally Posted by
thumper

Quote: Originally Posted by
chuckr

Quote: Originally Posted by
thumper
And i thank you all for your help but none of the above answers helped i had to remove the ram from both slot's to get it to reboot nothing else worked.some how it locked in that Memory Diagnostics Tool .so maybe this answer will help someone else in the further
Did you hit it a
second time,
after the
first 'Esc' stopped the 'scan-in-progress'?
Did you have computer power 'on' when you yanked the memory boards?
Certainly, with mainframe power off, the box is ready to boot from anywhere,
when power is reapplied...
No the system was powered off and power switch on the back was off also.
Hitting the esc button only paused the scan it did not stop it .
i rebooted several times and memory tool still started every time.
when i powered off and power switch on the back was off.
I removed the ram
and restarted my system it still went to memory tool
but esc worked this time and rebooted and system came up.
What I have observed with my trial, is that a
single Esc paused the testing.
It took a second keystroke to actually Exit.
I read your post as:
1. No, I did not hit 'Esc' a second time during initial memory test.
2. Memory testing started immediately, after every subsequent reboot.
(Did you ever hit 'Esc' key
twice during these Memtests? Or just once?)
3. Finally, after several reboots, the ram was removed.
4. After ram removal, a
single 'Esc' key exited the Memory Test utility and booted the Windows 7 operating system.
5.
You are currently running Windows 7 with some ram still removed. 2 modules or 1?
The implication is that the removed ram is 'suspected bad' ram.
i.e. the single 1, or one of the 2, or both of the 2.
The next step would be to temporarily swap the installed ram with the suspect ram (but only 1 module at a time),
and run Memory tests again, restarting at square 1.
Keep the 'good ram' separate from the 'suspect bad' module.
(What happened
prior to 'Memory testing' is of no concern here.)
(We're only 'looking at' the Memory test utility and the hw ram modules.)