Lori
If you check your mobo manual you may find that there are
"pairs" for the RAM slots and only certain combinations are
supported. Often slot 0 and 2 are paired as would be 1 & 3.
Putting RAM in slots 0,1, & 2 would only use slots 0 and 2
if the RAM was properly matched.
As far as hard drive space, you only need to have a C: drive
(partition) big enough to hold the operating system and
applications plus leave at least 15-20% free space to allow
defragmentation. You can reduce the excess space allocated
to system restore (default is 12% which is way too much on a
big drive).
System performance depends on the condition of the registry
(bad links to programs) and the number of programs/ services
running (often there are spyware and viruses) that are using
CPU cycles.
If you download the EVEREST scan tool free from
www.lavalys.com and run it on your computer, it will report
the make and model of your motherboard and other details
about your system, including details about the RAM. There
is also a benchmark program in EVEREST that will give you an
idea about the performance of the computer in relation to
other similar models.
You should run a complete anti-virus scan, scan with spyware
tools (Ad-Aware SE Personal is free from
www.lavasoftusa.com
and SpyBot S&D is free from
www.safer-networking.org ) these
are good places to start.
Also run disk clean-up and defrag you computer.
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| || The answers to your question helped me some, but my
question goes a bit
|| further. I have upgraded as well, 1.50 GB (three cards).
I use my computer
|| for graphics so it is needed. My question is where this
memory is
| "alloted."
|| Only 37.2 GB on C, Scratch has 74.5 GB, and Archive has
127 GB. Shouldn't
| the
|| bulk of the memory be on C? And how would I change this?
Can anyone help?
| My
|| computer is running as slow as it did before adding the
extra memory!
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| You're confusing RAM with hard disk space. The RAM you
installed has nothing
| to do with the amount of space available on your drive(s).
Is all of your
| RAM seen by the BIOS? How much did you have before
upgrading? Are you sure
| that lack of RAM was the source of your problem?
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