[ARCHIVED THREAD] - RAM limitations?

Posted: 7/16/2006 9:38:05 PM EDT

Does XP have a top end for ram? My laptop can handle up 2Gs of ram however. I recently added a 1 GB over the stock 512 and allot of my programs don't seem to work right. On numerous programs I get the windows error and program must close.

Posted: 7/16/2006 10:10:57 PM EDT

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Does XP have a top end for ram? My laptop can handle up 2Gs of ram however. I recently added a 1 GB over the stock 512 and allot of my programs don't seem to work right. On numerous programs I get the windows error and program must close.

I'd download MemTest86 here and test your ram. WinXP will handle up to 4 gigs without a problem to my knowledge. So it probably isn't WinXP doing it. You might also want to up-size your page file too. I am running 2 gigs, as a bunch of other people here and we don't have problems with it. Does the BIOS see 1.5 gigs of ram?

-d

Posted: 7/17/2006 6:37:23 AM EDT

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Yes, the BIOS sees the RAM, I will try the page files.

Posted: 7/17/2006 7:45:12 AM EDT

[#3]

Thanks, looks like it solved the problem.

It came set on Custom, and I changed it to let windows manage, and haven't had a program go down yet.

Posted: 7/17/2006 3:56:45 PM EDT

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Put the larger DIMM(s) in the first slot(s) and then see what it does.

Posted: 7/17/2006 4:37:34 PM EDT

[#5]

I think it was the page files, since switching to letting the computer manage the problem went away.

Posted: 7/17/2006 9:50:31 PM EDT

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