I doubt it is the ram, usually incompatible ram won't boot at all...........

"Bob Levine" wrote in message
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HH wrote:

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


Kinda what I figured. It seems that the PNY 133 isn't backward
compatible for some reason.

Thanks for the feedback.

Bob