Acer Travelmate 291LCi continously reboot after RAM upgrade

Hello everybody,

my Travelmate runs XP Pro SP2 and has (by default) 2x256MB RAM. Today I've bought 2x1GB RAM (Corsair) and installed. The system will boot with no problems, I even see in the POST screen the 2GB RAM, but after about 30 seconds, my laptop will reboot and start a hardware test each time!
I have tried something else: 1x256MB RAM (old) + 1x1GB RAM (new) and the system seems to be stable rolleyes , ok, I didn't wait a lot to see if it reboots after a longer time, but it seems to be ok...
Now, I don't know what to do to make it work with 2x1GB RAM, as I read (in internet) that this is the max. amount of memory supported by my MoBo...
Could somebody give me a hand on this?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Conrad

 

Hi Conrad and welcome to Majorgeeks .

Crucial RAM for your Travelmate series, check the RAM you bought against the 1GB listed here, chances are there's a slight difference in type, some machines are very fussy and must have the correct RAM.

 

Do both the new 1GB sticks work by themelves?

If they both boot independantly, then download memtest and run for 30 mins

http://www.memtest86.com/


Burn to CD using this

http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5

An post the results on here if you have any problems!

Burrell