My notebook will not boot up and it says “Unsupported memory module in Socket 1 is detected”

My Dell Inspirion 8100 notebook won’t boot up. It gets the blue ‘Dell’ picture (always present at start of boot) and then screen goes black with an ‘unsupported memory module in Socket 1 was detected’ it says to remove the memory module and reboot. I tried. It does the same either way. I recently started [...]

I installed a brand new RAM into my notebook. Now the notebook will not boot up and beeps when I turn it on.

I have a Toshiba satellite A55-s306, and I bought new RAM for it just recently. It’s a 512MB memory stick, and I know it’s the correct type of RAM because I checked about a dozen sites and they all recommended me the same one. The problem is no matter what slot I try to install [...]

My Acer Aspire 3003 laptop has been running fine. Recently it stopped working and will not boot.

I recently (only a few months ago) bought a new Acer Aspire 3003 laptop and it has been running fine. Recently it stopped working and will not boot. When I turn it on, the power buttons lights up (green) and CD/DVD drive spins, the fan runs for a few seconds and then stops and the [...]

I turn on the power button on my laptop and it powers up. No Toshiba graphic appears, not even the backlight.

Thanks for making your site; it has some very useful information. Unfortunately I have an error for which I could not find a solution on your site. I have an M35x-s149 Toshiba laptop. One day it started acting up… I turn on the power button, and the power management system powers up CD-ROM etc has [...]

I installed new memory but it will not show up in the computer properties. Laptop will not boot up with new hard drive.

I have a Toshiba Satellite, it has a P3 processor. Recently, the memory installed wont show-up, in computer properties (shows only 64MB). And I tried changing the hard drive, 11 Gig HDD, because it keeps showing error messages. (corrupted sys.files). But it won’t boot-up with new HDD, 40Gig HDD. I think that you can get [...]