Laptop just goes straight to reading hard drive and hangs

Laptop just goes straight to reading hard drive and hangs

I was just working on an Acer laptop (not mine, eek) when I discovered it only has 512MB ram. As I was loading Visual Studio 2008, I knew this wasn't an option, so I swopped it's memory out (two DDR2's), for 1GB. When I tried to boot the machine, immediately on power on, both build in and USB hard drive lights came on and the machine hung. There was no opportunity to enter BIOS settings or anything. I replaced the original ram with no change.

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"If you've put the original RAM back in and it still doesn't work, about the only thing to try it to be SURE that the RAM is seated properly (I've had repeated problems in this regard with laptop RAM). If it starts working again, try the new RAM again.

However if it still doesn't work, you've probably accidentally let the magic smoke out of something."