Jools Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I've had endless hours of trouble with an old machine I formatted a few weeks ago - every time I tried to install XP Pro I kept getting the "setup cannot copy file x" a lot, and therefore couldn't install XP because I had to skip a lot of files. After reading up online about how faulty RAM can be the cause, I took both sticks (2x 256Mb SDRAM) out, and put one back in and tried to install XP again. No luck. Tried the other stick and got had XP running about 30 minutes later. So after that I tried putting the other stick back in - it picked up the RAM but then XP just continually got to the welcome screen and rebooted. Is there anything I can do with the RAM that's faulty? Besides binning it? Its quite old (the whole system is about 5 years old) but up until recently I've never had a problem with anything, including the RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Nothing you can do practically. Just bin it an eBay some new stuff. Should get some cheap old RAM on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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