Hi John,
I do have the available slots -- currently have a single 1 GB DIMM and
two open slots to put the two new DIMMs in, which will max me out as I'm
using XP Home 32-bit. I did a little checking on the motherboard (and
downloaded a great little program called CPU-Z from
http://www.cpuid.com) to make sure I could handle that much of an
upgrade, so I'm in the clear there. It's a fairly old system, but when
I had it built, I told them I wanted something that would be upgradable
for quite a while, and they did me right in that regard. My only gripe
is that, at the time I had it built, I didn't have even a passing
interest in digital photography and never figured I'd have much need for
a lot of storage, so I went moderate on the hard drive.
I should have known better, of course. I can remember thinking to
myself years ago, when I had a Pentium P-90 with 8 MB of RAM and a 1.25
GB hard drive, "How on earth would someone ever be able to fill up a 12
Gig hard drive!?!"
Thanks for the heads-up, nonetheless. It's always good to have input on
these things.
-- Walt
On 2/20/2011 9:43 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
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.
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