From: Walter Gilbert
AND furthermore ...I just ordered 2GB of PC3200 DDR 400MHz SDRAM from Newegg.com for $54.00/free shipping. Could I afford to do it? Nope. But, it's something I've needed to do for a while, and it'll help speed up my workflow considerably. So, I reckon it's an investment. Gawd, I hate photography.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but does your computer have slots available for the memory? Or are you replacing the existing memory?
And either way, will the mother board handle the amount of ram being installed? I won't even mention the irritation of installing 4GB of ram only to find out 32bit windoze will not use it.
Just a few of the problems I've run into lately ... I have 2GB in the computer I'm using here, and 2GB is all it's ever going to have. Maxed out the memory the motherboard would accept when I built this system back in 2005.
My laptop can accept up to 4GB, but 32 bit XP only sees 3GB and it assigning 500MB of that to video. I don't know why. It had 2GB, both memory slots filled with 1GB modules when I bought it and the video has it's own VRAM.
Filled both slots with 2GB modules and only get 2.5GB of memory. What the hell is that?
Most of what's driven the computer work I've done in the last year is trying to get enough storage online so I can move all of my work OFF of my laptop's second hard-drive. The laptop has two physical hard-drives. My intention is to move the second drive over to the first hard-drive slot, install 64 bit windoze and install a larger drive in the second slot.
That will preserve the original pre-load on the orginal hard-drive in case I ever want to sell the laptop.
Oh yeah ... and in the meantime I have to take some beautiful photographs. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3454 - Release Date: 02/19/11 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
