Mem Upgrade Fails

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Mike

Went from 128K to 512K on HP Pavillion. (2 sticks) When
I run both sticks the PC will lock up every 20 or 30
minutes. When I run 1 stick (256K) the PC seems to run
fine. Error is an application error - event 1001 -
DCFSSVC

Any ideas.
 
Hi,

XP is very keen on the ram spec. The spec of two ram sticks may not be fully
matched.

Peter
 
Sounds like maybe your motherboard has issues with the RAM or you have
bad RAM. I would try the memory diagnostic from www.memtest.org and see
if either stick is bad.
 
Not really XP's fault. The two sticks don't need to be matched unless
you are running in Dual Channel mode. Even then, they don't fully need
to be matched (advisable though). It is more a problem of the
motherboard or the memory itself. I think a BIOS update may be a good
idea too.
 
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