[Pc_Support] PC locking up after installing new memory

[Damien McKenna]

Here's the story.  Have a HP 1.3ghz Celery PC running Windows XP Home
(SP2) that had 128mb of RAM in it.  I installed 2x 256mb PC133 sticks in
place of the one 128mb stick (unsure what speed) and since then it
randomly locks up.  It's a lightly used machine, nothing more than AOL 9
and MSWord (with Symantec Corporate Antivirus 8 in the background) so it
isn't like the system is overheating from playing Quake42.

The problem is that three times in the past three days it has just
halted - the mouse freezes and within a moment the screen goes black.
One time it halted when the owner was in MSWord, the other two times in
AOL writing an email.

Apparently the PC is only compatible with certain types of 256mb strips,
two sided ones that have lower capacity chips, so we made certain to
order the type that the memory manufacturer said were compatible
(Corsair CMSS256MB-133), but obviously this may still be the problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could try?  I'm going over
later to do a MemTest86 test on it, I'll see if it can uncover anything.

Thanks.

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