Bob,
The 5003US shupped with PC100 SyncDRAM and some Presarios are finicky about
using PC133, especially mixed with PC100. Never much cared for PNY memory
anyway. Most of the Memory-related issues we had with Presarios of that
period was with PNY memory. Almost never with Micron/Crucial, Samsung or
Corsair. Try:

http://www.crucial.com

HH

"Bob Levine" wrote in message
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I've got a neighbor who owns a Presario 5000, model 5003US. I just
upgraded the machine to XP from ME with a clean install. Runs much better
now, but he also bought a 128 meg PNY memory module for it at Staples to
upgrade the RAM from 128 to 256.

When I installed it, the machine started to boot and got to about 160 megs
and the monitor just lit up like a Christmas tree with all kinds of funky
colors. I thought maybe the RAM was no good so I had him return it but the
replacement is doing the same thing.

It's 128 megs of PC 133 RAM. Any clues as to what's wrong?

Bob