How to add memory to your PC

[robin.pain@tesco.net]

Plan a) Add the extra memory; continue normal use.
Plan b) Add the extra memory and test it with
http://www.memtest86.com/#download0

I just tried Plan a)

It cost me a week of frustration and an XP clean install (because I
did not know about plan c) )

c) Start / Run / msconfg / General(tab) / "system restore".

Cheers
Robin

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

robin.pain@tesco.net wrote:

Plan a) Add the extra memory; continue normal use.
Plan b) Add the extra memory and test it with
http://www.memtest86.com/#download0

I just tried Plan a)

It cost me a week of frustration and an XP clean install (because I
did not know about plan c) )

c) Start / Run / msconfg / General(tab) / "system restore".

More experienced (meaning having waisted too much time)
users buy a machine with a final memory configuration
and never open the machine for upgrades/improvements.
Juist add the week's worth of time and nerves to the
RAM configuration of the next machine.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[Chaos Master]

This is robin.pain@tesco.net for forever:

Plan a) Add the extra memory; continue normal use.
Plan b) Add the extra memory and test it with
http://www.memtest86.com/#download0

I just tried Plan a)

It cost me a week of frustration and an XP clean install (because I
did not know about plan c) )

c) Start / Run / msconfg / General(tab) / "system restore".

I didn't knew that adding memory could cause those effects...

I have upgraded from 64 to 128MB (4 x 32MB EDO, IIRC - this was a while
ago and I can't open the case right now) - no problems happened to my
Windows 98 installation.

[]s
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[Active8]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:56:33 -0200, Chaos Master wrote:

This is robin.pain@tesco.net for forever:
Plan a) Add the extra memory; continue normal use.
Plan b) Add the extra memory and test it with
http://www.memtest86.com/#download0

I just tried Plan a)

It cost me a week of frustration and an XP clean install (because I
did not know about plan c) )

c) Start / Run / msconfg / General(tab) / "system restore".

I didn't knew that adding memory could cause those effects...

I have upgraded from 64 to 128MB (4 x 32MB EDO, IIRC - this was a while
ago and I can't open the case right now) - no problems happened to my
Windows 98 installation.

Winders 9x had a 64 MB limit built into the OS. It never saw the new

RAM.
--
Best Regards,
Mike

 

[Pooh Bear]

Active8 wrote:

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:20:00 +0000, Pooh Bear wrote:

Active8 wrote:

< snip >

Winders 9x had a 64 MB limit built into the OS. It never saw the new
RAM.

Whre did you get such a daft idea as that ?

Maybe I heard that it just won't allocate more than 64 MB per
process. It was discussed here before and I don't remember it all.

Win 98 has trouble talking to more than 512 M IIRC.

I recall a 64M adressing space limit for old ISA expansion cards like SCSI
controllers.

Using Cacheman I get the following report under win 98SE

Total memory 220 M
Usage 148.8 M
Free 707.M

Win 98 won't be upset by adding memory anyway.

Try to make it use it.

It happily uses it up quite easily. See above. That was 70.7M free btw - lol !


Graham

 

[legg]

On 11 Feb 2005 01:17:48 -0800, robin.pain@tesco.net
(robin.pain@tesco.net) wrote:

Nowdays I expected perfection more or less so when one of my brand new
2.5V 184pin 256MByte cards (I lovingly caressed chassis,
anti-static-bag while removing and inserting RAM the while)I never
expected failure at all.

(Evidently the manufacture does no testing because that would scuff
the gold edge connectors.)

Only trouble I've ever had with new memory in W98 or W2K was with
socketry connections on a new MB. Needed scuffing to make contact.

RL

 

[Chaos Master]

This is Active8 for forever:

I have upgraded from 64 to 128MB (4 x 32MB EDO, IIRC - this was a while
ago and I can't open the case right now) - no problems happened to my
Windows 98 installation.

Winders 9x had a 64 MB limit built into the OS. It never saw the new
RAM.

Maybe you're thinking about Windows 3.11 [1] or 95?

I have a friend with 98SE and that uses a 750MHz AMD Duron with 384MB
RAM.

[1] Actually, it was a MS-DOS limitation in HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE.

[]s
--
Chaos MasterŽ, posting from Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - 29.55° S
/ 51.11° W / GMT-2h / 15m .

"People told me I can't dress like a fairy.
I say, I'm in a rock band and I can do what the hell I want!"
-- Amy Lee

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