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by **theCleaner** » Sun 27 Apr, 2003 4:52 pm

I'm new to the windows world, running Macs mostly. I got a 900mhz Celeron with winxp pro installed, I only have 128mb RAM. This thing is running really slow and sluggish. It takes anywhere from 5 to 8 seconds just to open the "My Computer" folder. I'm wondering why it is so slow, I know Celerons aren't the best, but 900mhz shouldn't be this slow, should it? I was thinking that it is the 128mb RAM? If I add a additional 256, will I see a MAJOR difference? I also have a NVIDA geforce 32meg PCI card (which I know is not the best either), but I can forget about playing games, UT will hardly even run..........I'm hoping this all comes down to the RAM. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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by **Antony** » Mon 28 Apr, 2003 7:26 pm

Short answer: if you really want WinXP to be fast, more RAM, more HD space, and get rid of visual effects.

Try not to load too many applicationa on the start up.

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by **Mandrake** » Tue 29 Apr, 2003 12:26 am

Start, Run then type "MSCONFIG" - you can kill off many things that load at startup.

128mb of ram really is the minimum for Windows XP. Another 128mb or 256mb would greatly increase preformance for you. The more ram, the better, 512mb is generally reccomended for opitmum performance in WinXP.

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by **theCleaner** » Fri 02 May, 2003 5:52 pm

I bought a 256 meg stick and now I have a big improvement, it's actually useable now. Another problem though. I wanted to use the 128 meg stick I have to, but it seems the second DIMM slot isnt working, even when I just try to use the 256 in the 2 slot, it don't work. Is there anything I can do to get the 2 slot to work, so I can have 256 + 128?

Thanks

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by **DJGM** » Fri 02 May, 2003 6:50 pm

When installing SDRAM type memory on a PC mainboard, always make
sure your larger capacity sticks are installed in the slots on the left and
the lower capacity sticks are on the right. Seeing as you have a 256MB
stick and a 128MB stick, install the 256MB stick in the first memory slot
and then the 128MB stick in the memory slot immediately to right.

If you add another 256MB stick, put it in between the other 256MB stick
and the original 128MB stick. If you were to add a 512MB stick, move
both the 256MB stick, and the 128MB one slot each to the right, and
install the 512MB stick in the first slot on the left, so that you have
your memory stick in the sequence . . . 512MB - 256MB - 128MB.

As for installing the newer DDR type RAM, I don't know, as I've never
used this type of memory yet, but I'd imagine it's probably installed
the same as you would with SDRAM, as I explained above . . .

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by **theCleaner** » Fri 02 May, 2003 9:30 pm

That is the way I put them 256 first then 128 (SDRAM), but the computer don't seem to want to reconize the last slot, weird.

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by **sisyphus88** » Sat 03 May, 2003 1:27 am

Normally, the larger of two different sized sticks will go in bank 0, and the smaller in bank 1 (or 1 and 2, if you perfer counting from 1).

What do the bios read? 256 or 384? Try reversing the order of the sticks on the MB. Note that some boards/bios can't deal with mixed sizes of RAM. Go to the MB manufacturer's web site and see if you can find a fix... perhaps there is a bios upgrade that will address your issue.

Regards,
Sisyphus

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by **Mandrake** » Sat 03 May, 2003 4:36 am

Everyone pretty much nailed this on the head. I remember when I had just upgraded to 64mb of ram to run Windows 95 OSR2 perfectly! That was a big thing back then - lol!

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by **Fulvio** » Sat 03 May, 2003 10:36 am

theCleaner wrote:That is the way I put them 256 first then 128 (SDRAM), but the computer don't seem to want to reconize the last slot, weird.

It depends on your computer. You should be able to find out what you can or cannot do.

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