upgrading memory?

notakid

wiraone wrote:

The motherboard has an intergrated graphics adapter which shares it memory with the system memory and that why you see that you've lesser memory than the standard 256MB. After your new RAM installation, go to the BIOS setup and increase this allocation for the graphics adapter too and this will speed thing a little bit more. The best is to go for at least a 128MB AGP video card.. this will really speed up the game.

Thanks for this
But whats BIOS?
How do I get to it?
How much should I increase it by?

flang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS
Dont worry about Increasing your graphics memory unless you play games a lot..

notakid

I have a question. When my son is playing Warcraft the computer sometimes goes to a blue screen and says its dumping phyical memory could this be due to the game or is it my new memory?

T4i

notakid wrote:

I have a question. When my son is playing Warcraft the computer sometimes goes to a blue screen and says its dumping phyical memory could this be due to the game or is it my new memory?

Did it do this before the memory upgrade?

notakid

No it didn't but it only seems to happen when playing War game. Also the computer can be on for hours before it happens. We just switch it off and switch back on and its ok but I'm worried.

T4i

Your new RAM could be abit duff......or may be trying to run at different timings causing a error.

Download prime95 and do a torture test. Or get memtest86 and make a bootable CD if you have a cd-writer. (you can download it in .iso version so it will be made into a bootable automatically) - go into BIOS, tell ur p.c to select CD-ROM as 1st boot device, run memtest86 as long as possible (24hrs)

Write down any results.

Skyhigh

Its possible that the memory could be duff, so run the tests that T4i suggested above.
But you did buy from Crucial....and the chances of it being duff are quite slim indeed!

Do you just have the one stick of 512mb in now, or have you put it in along side the existing sticks?

The problem with this is that if you use different types, sizes or brands of memory then this can cause system compatability issues.
(At the least it will slow your PC down)

Try it with just the 512mb stick in on its own.

If its still not working and the RAM stick is OK then its probably just an incompatability issue with the RAM and your motherboard.


I bought a 512 stick for the gf's old PC to get it running, did the same as yours - ran memtest and it came up clean.
Found out the mobo was a bit duff and having 'issues'

New PC self build cost about £290 (for the box)
Thats with an ASUS M2NPV-VM nF430 Socket AM2, AMD 3500+ 64-Bit AM2, 1GB DDR2 Cruical memory, DVD-RW, 200GB HDD.

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