RAM advice

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Hi.

Up until recently, I have had 2 sticks of Crucial 512mb PC2700 DDR RAM in my
computer. Unfortunately, one of them broke so lately I have been using just
1 stick of 512mb and since then it seems that my system has become more
unstable with some applications/games developing a tendency to crash for no
apparent reason (Kazaa Lite, GTA:Vice City, Thief). I am reliably informed
that that sort of thing often happens when there is only 1 RAM module
instead of 2 or more, regardless of size.

The point is, I obviously need another RAM module but I am somewhat skint
recently so I can't really afford another 512mb so I was thinking of getting
a smaller module, maybe 128mb at least temporarily to sort out the crashing
problems (plus my motherboard has 128-bit dual channel memory architecture.)
However, I heard that it is advisable to use 2 (or more) RAM modules that
are the same size rather than mixing and matching sizes.

Please advice.

Thanks

 

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"Paul Harris" <paul@NO-SPAMstudham74.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> Up until recently, I have had 2 sticks of Crucial 512mb PC2700 DDR RAM in my
> computer. Unfortunately, one of them broke so lately I have been using just
> 1 stick of 512mb and since then it seems that my system has become more
> unstable with some applications/games developing a tendency to crash for no
> apparent reason (Kazaa Lite, GTA:Vice City, Thief). I am reliably informed
> that that sort of thing often happens when there is only 1 RAM module
> instead of 2 or more, regardless of size.

That sounds like nonsense to me (except when pairs of modules
are specifically required (see your mainboard manual)), and I hope
others in this group will weigh in on that. Meanwhile, you might try
running a memory diagnostic. Download Memtest86+ from
http://www.memtest.org and run it for a few hours. You
should get zero errors.

-- Bob Day
http://bobday.vze.com

 

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Paul Harris wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Up until recently, I have had 2 sticks of Crucial 512mb PC2700 DDR RAM in my
> computer. Unfortunately, one of them broke so lately I have been using just
> 1 stick of 512mb and since then it seems that my system has become more
> unstable with some applications/games developing a tendency to crash for no
> apparent reason (Kazaa Lite, GTA:Vice City, Thief). I am reliably informed
> that that sort of thing often happens when there is only 1 RAM module
> instead of 2 or more, regardless of size.
>
> The point is, I obviously need another RAM module but I am somewhat skint
> recently so I can't really afford another 512mb so I was thinking of getting
> a smaller module, maybe 128mb at least temporarily to sort out the crashing
> problems (plus my motherboard has 128-bit dual channel memory architecture.)
> However, I heard that it is advisable to use 2 (or more) RAM modules that
> are the same size rather than mixing and matching sizes.
>
> Please advice.
>
> Thanks

Crucial tend to guarantee their memory for life.

Call them up, arrange an RMA and wait 48 hours. Their service is
superb.

By the way, I have yet to encounter a human being who can determine any
speed difference with these so-called "dual channel" motherboards.


Odie
--

RetroData
Data Recovery Experts
www.retrodata.co.uk

 

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"Bob Day" <xxxxxxx@yyyyyyy.com> wrote in message
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> "Paul Harris" <paul@NO-SPAMstudham74.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:cfodne$35l$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Hi.
> >
> > Up until recently, I have had 2 sticks of Crucial 512mb PC2700 DDR RAM
in my
> > computer. Unfortunately, one of them broke so lately I have been using
just
> > 1 stick of 512mb and since then it seems that my system has become more
> > unstable with some applications/games developing a tendency to crash for
no
> > apparent reason (Kazaa Lite, GTA:Vice City, Thief). I am reliably
informed
> > that that sort of thing often happens when there is only 1 RAM module
> > instead of 2 or more, regardless of size.
>
> That sounds like nonsense to me (except when pairs of modules
> are specifically required (see your mainboard manual)), and I hope
> others in this group will weigh in on that. Meanwhile, you might try
> running a memory diagnostic. Download Memtest86+ from
> http://www.memtest.org and run it for a few hours. You
> should get zero errors.

Check.

 

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"Odie Ferrous" <odie_ferrous@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Paul Harris wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > Up until recently, I have had 2 sticks of Crucial 512mb PC2700 DDR RAM
in my
> > computer. Unfortunately, one of them broke so lately I have been using
just
> > 1 stick of 512mb and since then it seems that my system has become more
> > unstable with some applications/games developing a tendency to crash for
no
> > apparent reason (Kazaa Lite, GTA:Vice City, Thief). I am reliably
informed
> > that that sort of thing often happens when there is only 1 RAM module
> > instead of 2 or more, regardless of size.
> >
> > The point is, I obviously need another RAM module but I am somewhat
skint
> > recently so I can't really afford another 512mb so I was thinking of
getting
> > a smaller module, maybe 128mb at least temporarily to sort out the
crashing
> > problems (plus my motherboard has 128-bit dual channel memory
architecture.)
> > However, I heard that it is advisable to use 2 (or more) RAM modules
that
> > are the same size rather than mixing and matching sizes.
> >
> > Please advice.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Crucial tend to guarantee their memory for life.
>
> Call them up, arrange an RMA and wait 48 hours. Their service is
> superb.

I really REALLY wish I could find where I put that memory stick