Hi everyone.

I have been given a computer by my parents. Today I riged it up and turned it on.

I recived a Memory test fail. All I can tell you is what came up on the screen, which is as followes:-

Windows 98.
MAIN PROCESSOR:Intel(R) Celeron(TM) 500MHz
(CPUID : 665, microcode ID: 0003)
memory testing: 64512K OK + 1024K shared memory
Award plug and play Bios extension v1,0A
Copyright (C) 1999, Award software, Inc.
Trend chipawayvirus(R) on guard Ver 1.63A
Primary Master: SAMSUNG SV0682D LN 100
Primary slave: None.
Secondary Master: CD-ROM Drive/E5A B1.3 B1.3
Secondry Slave: None.

Memory test fail
Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter setup

The computer was working fine when last used.
Can anyone tell me what I have to do next? And if so, will you please help?

I hope there is enough info to be getting on with.

ATB Gary.

PART 2.

OK, I'm not sure what I'm doing with the setup so I opted for F1.

The windows 98 screen came and went, then:-

While initializing device VMCPD:
Windows protection error, you need to restart your computer.
You need to start in SAFE MODE

Warning: Windows did not finnishloading on the previous attempt. Choose SAFE MODE, to start windows with a minimal set of drivers.

So I started in SAFE MODE. And up poped:-

HIMEM is testing extended memory...Done.
Windows XMS driver version 3.95
Extended memory specification (XMS) version 3.0
Copyright 1988-1995 microsoft corp.

ERROR: HIMEM.SYS
has detected unreliable XMS memory at address 02000004 XMS driver not installed.

To continue starting your computer, press ENTER.

I pressed ENTER, and up poped the following:-

HIMEM.SYS is missing.
Make sure that the file is in your Windows directory.

Windows has stopped. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart your computer.

I hope this is of some help. (More hopes).

I would really apreciate some input on this. Thanks for your interest.

ATB Gary again.

Remove and reseat you RAM modules and see if that helps.

Thanks brain_damage for those words of wisdom, that worked a treat.

Problem solved.

I really appreciate your help.

ATB Gary.

Glad you're all sorted