I have an HP Pavilion notebook about a year old, and I just put a new memory card in yesterday. Originally, I put the new card in the vacant slot, and the computer worketd fine, but the system didn’t recognize any more main RAM than usual. So I went back in there and swapped the two cards, and now the new, larger card of 1G was being recognized as the main memory and everything was fine. I was thrilled with the improved performance as I need to run Visual Studio for a class I’m taking.
And so to bed.
Now, this morning, the thing will not boot up at all. The lights come on and immediately start flashing. It beeps loudly three or four times–BOOP! BOOP! BOOP! and then the lights just continue blinking. It won’t boot up. Other than the memory upgrade, for the first time I put the computer in a case that was a little tight for it, but it did fit. I didn’t warp it, did I? I thought these notebooks were pretty tough. I once accidently dropped a notebook from a height of five feet onto a polished marble floor, and it was fine (but that was not this one).
I’m going to take it to the Geek Squad later, but I’m just wondering what it could be, and if my computer is dead or only sick.