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Problem with laptop after adding a new battery and RAM

I have a 15 inch HP laptop.
It's about 2.5 years old and the battery began to die on me.
So, I bought a new one from amazon and added 8GB of RAM while it was open.

The battery lasts several hours when it is unplugged, and it processes much faster. Great!

But, sometimes the screen locks up. I can't move the cursor.
I have tried hitting function/insert and that works, but then a blue highlight expands over the page. If I move the page up and down it highlights the entire page.

If I try using control / alt /delete, it returns to normal after I x out of it.

But then the problem randomly returns later.

It has to be something simple I am overlooking.

Any suggestions?
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AdaXI · T
Ok so you changed the RAM and the battery. So you could take the new battery out run it on the mains for a while and see if that does anything but really like everyone else I suspect it's probably the RAM that's at fault. Like if that RAM slot has never been used before it might even just have a bit of dust build up in it.
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