Judging from the post title, we are looking at whether or not, a computer RAM Size can be upgraded. The simple answer is YES! However, it depends on the computer processor. Now, you may ask me how i knew about this or how sure i am based on this. Well, i actually did it.
I cannot multitask too well because of the RAM size. Running more than 3 programs at a time would leave the system hanging and i would have to force turn it off without shutting down first. Since getting a direct 4GB RAM was scarce, i had no choice than to settle for 2GB on one slot leaving the second slot empty and that worked fine. Look for the Computer icon on your desktop screen. Right click on it and click on Properties.
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Posted 19 October - AM Hi all. Good enough for browsing the internet and doing basic administration - pretty rubbish for playing games. So, I decided the time had come to upgrade. I disabled the integrated graphics and installed the graphics card, no problems. Only mentioning this in case it's somehow related. I've heard of occasional problems when people have mixed RAM types; but these seem only to be with "Dual Channel" RAM slots, which usually come in 2 pairs of 2.
Does anybody have any ideas, then, why this isn't working? Or what I can do to test or diagnose the problem? I don't know too much about internal hardware, past the basics, so I'm not entirely sure where to begin with looking this up.
One thing's just occurred to me - again, don't know enough about this sorta stuff to know if this theory has any merit - if, as many of the websites I've looked at advise, my motherboard does have a 2GB capacity, could it be that the 1GB graphics card is taking up half of this capacity?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Best wishes, -- Khrys. Posted 19 October - PM You are sure that the system recognizes the new module Posted 19 October - PM one kind of memery module is it? Otherwise, have you tried removing the mb stick and just use the 1 gig and see what happens.
Posted 19 October - PM In the original post he said the 1gig stick was recognized. Sometimes different memory sticks don't play nice with each other. That is about the amount that the XP OS takes up. Since your company is doing this on many PCs, are they considering future upgrade of the OS? For my firm I ordered 4GB on all my old Dell Precision stations knowing we'd eventually go to bit.
We ran a few years with 3. VirtualLarry said:. I doubt there is any OS upgrade in the near horizon since there are bigger priorities right now, but the thought of being a little more future proof is good so I'll mention it, since 4 GB is what was planned originally. Thanks all for the comments.
Memtest 86 ran smoothly on the couple of test machines with the 3GB setup so will see what the decision will be in the end. You must log in or register to reply here. Memory and Storage 3 Jan 18, Question Considering upgrading older pc from 8gb to 16 but is ddr3, worth doing? Memory and Storage 15 Dec 7, Similar threads Solved! Question Considering upgrading older pc from 8gb to 16 but is ddr3, worth doing? Post thread. CPUs and Overclocking. Graphics Cards. AnandTech is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher.
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