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RAM questions....

  • 24-04-2003 7:36pm
    #1
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭


    Right, my saga with the crashing new computer has been solved, and the RAM did it. More accurately, it was old, cheap RAM that caused the problems:
    Machine came with 256MB PC133 DIMM. I added another DIMM with 128MB on it, which I'd bought a year ago. I'm don't know how fast it was (PC World special).
    I should really have twigged it when the 128 stick was composed of 16x8MB chips, but my 256 only had 8x32MB chips.

    I had become suspicious when certain apps couldn't write to the HDD periodically, and defrag wouldn't run without crashing. HDD b0rked I thought. D/L'd diagnostic tools from Maxtor and Seagate. Performed 4 read/write passes over the entire drive, and no probs. The only thing left was the RAM. Removed my extra RAM, and hey presto, machine is running like a rocket (faster than it did before :rolleyes: ). So Win98 SE needs to be reinstalled (again, Win98 doesn't like it when you reduce the amount of ram in your machine, a problem I've had before), but I'm going to upgrade anyway :).

    Why does this happen? Is it a hardware issue with two vastly different speeds of RAM, or is it more likely a Windows issue? And what's the best for me to buy now - basically the exact same as what I have in my machine, or would it be ok to stick 512MB more in?

    Thanks guys


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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Sorry to be bumping....but I'm prolly gonna be buying RAM next week...so if anyone has the answers......?

    :)


  • #3
    Raz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 999 ✭✭✭Raz


    This Thread covers a topic very similar.
    The basic answer given here is that Windows 98 has never run properly with over 512MB RAM, therefore if you're gonna go for a larger amount of RAM then you'd be best getting a newer operating system.
    But I doubt you'd be prepared to go that far so I'd guess you'd stay with getting a new 256MB stick.


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