Hi  Folks,

 

It seems that my Latitude C800 won't post. It does power on for a few seconds and the CD-ROM drive is activated. After this however, it shuts down.

 

After I starting having this issue, I tried the following: I have removed and reseated all of the removable items such as hard drive, optical drive, floppy drive, memory, battery, etc. I was finally able to boot to Windows by swapping out my memory module to another slot, however Windows froze up on me after which I got a "blue screen of death" with a "fatal exception" message. Once this happened, I started having my original problem again. I have been able to boot it up a few times since this problem started, but Windows always freezes after a few minutes.

 

Based on the fact that the problem has been temporarily fixed by reseating the memory, my thought is that this points to a bad memory module or a bad motherboard. I'm going to try and get my hands on some spare memory to test, but in the mean time I was wondering if anyone else has dealt with this problem? Any thoughts on what this could be? All advice or comments are welcome. Thanks for your help!