Yes.  In fact, bad or incorrectly seated memory is the first
thing I check when my computer acts as you said yours did.

Patrick Black wrote:
>
> Can a bad memory SIMM or DIMM (SDRAM) prevent a computer from booting,
> that when you turn it on, everything gets power (mobo, processor, etc.),
> nothing on screen, that sort of thing.  Can memory prevent boot up?
>
> --Patrick Black
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