re: How much RAM to add?
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:47 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1250 messages posted)
BobC. wrote:
|Hello. I have Windows XP ;service pack 2. My CPU is 2.8 ghz and the ram is listed
|as 504 mb. I'm guessing (novice here)
|that there are slots for additional ram. If so, can I add to my existing ram without
|"confusing" my system? How much would be compatible?
Yes Bob compatiblity is the problem. There are many types of RAM available all with
different speeds. If its an old computer then don't think that putting faster chips
in will make it run faster it won't it may run slower.
You need to remove the covers and examine the chips installed for make/model/numbers.
You say it shows 504MB is that of My Computer Properties? You say you have spare
slots so how many are being used? If you have 504MB then you could be using 2, 256MB
I wouldn't have thought that it would be 1 512MB.
My spare computer is an old one and I bought extra memory of eBay, 2, 256MB PC100
£20 and I used one of the older 128MB chips so I now have 639MB to play with on Win98/ME.
MartinM. wrote:
|No point in having more than 2GB in total as XP cannot / will not use it.
Yes I think thats because WinXP is old now. All these extra memory options weren't
available when XP was designed. I have 4GB in mine and Windows on sees 2.76GB. Vista
recognises large memory.
- Written in response to:
- How much RAM to add? (BobC.: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 7:04 pm)
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