3rd week of ITS internship 2/8/2010

Today we were installing Windows 7 on the computer we have for our projects that work. This took a fair amount of time, but when we were done we turned our attention to a School of Business computer that was brought in. It would not boot Windows; so Mike let us use this tool called Ultimate Boot CD I believe, and we used it to look for problems. Most of the tests it ran, like the hard drive or CPU test, it passed; however it kept hanging up on the Ram test, so we decided to pull one of the memory sticks, and sure enough the first one we pulled, it was able to boot Windows. We tried many different arrangements of the two memory sticks and slots they were in, but the first one we pulled never worked. We also noticed that the screen had a nice yellow tent to it, so we pulled the graphics card and just used the integrated graphics and sure enough the yellow tent was gone. We were able to get it to the password screen, which was much farther than we were able to begin with, but we were unable to test it any farther because we didn't have the password. It also didn't have a SATA cable to begin with so we had to use one we found.