I installed one gigabyte of memory to replace the virus-eaten original 512 that was currently on this laptop. I ran the OS and now this computer is working very well. The only problem with it is that the recovery software reconfigured the monitor, so now the main window is only displayed on about 60% of the full screen. Whole web pages can't be viewed without scrolling left and right. I haven't been able to figure out how to fix this. Thank you in advance.

can you explain little bit more details. Any way try this:

before installing a new OS, make sure you save your important files in external drive/memory
format your HDD it help to delete any virus or hidden program that cause problems.
Fresh install your OS (e.g. XP, Win7).
hope it will work. Bythe way make sure the OS you installing is compitable with your current PC/laptop hardware configaration.

Hi,
you can install Windows Vista if your computer meets the following standard requirements:-
1 gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) of system memory (512 megabytes (MB) for Home Basic)

40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space (20 GB for Home Basic)


Support for DirectX 9 graphics with WDDM and 128 MB of graphics memory (32 MB for Home Basic)

DVD-ROM drive
Audio Output
Internet access (Optional)

Hope this was helpful.
Cheers!!! Have a nice day!!!

I do not know your specific model of laptop, but if the above specifications are accurate, then most likely not. Most laptops have two DIMM ports, where you place the RAM. This laptop probably has two 1gigabyte pieces already installed. This means to add yours, you must remove one and replace it, thereby decreasing your RAM to 1.5gigabyte total. Now under the rare possibility that your computer has a single 2 gigabyte RAM installed, then yes you can really easily. Just open up the panel on the back with the RAM inside and check. If only one is installed, then install the other (you can use google search to find the exact process), and your computer will be ready to go. I hope this helps, -Robert

This is the website link for your board on gigabyte website. http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2159&ProductName=GA-8VM800PMD-775 Suggest you have a faulty piece of ram or a clock speed miss-match. your board supports up to 2gb of memory.Try also reseating the memory. Let me know how you get on? chris http://www.motherboardsrus.net

Check the specs of the computer. The model you has two memory slots. One on the bottom of the notebook. One under the keyboard. Each equal 64 mb thus 128 mb. You need to replace both with sdram 256 mb sticks not one 512.

This usually happens when the laptop is not able to take more then a certain amount of memory, as the system BIOS does not support higher. By saying ACPI as the blue screen, that tells me that the power subsystem does not 'like' having more then 512MB of RAM. I am 95% sure this is your BIOS because of that information. Check and see if you can find a BIOS upgrade for your computer model, and that might fix the issue, if an update is available.

This is because "the original ATA specification used a 28-bit addressing mode, allowing for the addressing of 228 (268,435,456) sectors (blocks) of 512 bytes each, resulting in a maximum capacity of about 137 gigabytes" (wikipedia). To fix this try upgrading your computer's bios and enabling any bios entries for larger disks. Also make sure that you are running your operating system with all of the current updates.

Go to Trend Micro and run Housecall to check your PC for viruses and spyware.
If it is still slow go to Start and click on My Computer. Right click on your C: drive and choose Properties. Run the Disk Cleanup. When that finishes click on the Tools tab and do a Check Disk and Disk Defrag.

You may not put all together the 256 and 512, the system encountered error when two memory are not equal size and not equal brand.

Either you select 2 units 256 memory or either 2 units 512. or use only 1 unit 512 memory so that no freezes will happen.

format your hdd fat32 with xp geneuin. then setup motherboard driver...