Can xp handle over 1 gig of ram ???

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I just ask this as i have two 512 megs of Crucial Dimms.

I had an extra 256meg dimms branded Exlixir.

So i ponked the extra dimm in and it @*(*(@*(@*@ up.



Any how i booted up with that and i got a memory error ?? and then a
message saying i had missing files ?

Could not even bootup in safe mode :(

Anyway lucky i have a 6 gig Partition just for windows so not alot was
lost as i needed to reformat, prob could have fixed it but its been a
long while since i reinstalled, good time for a clean up i thought.


Anyway anyone got some answers please let me know.

Thanks.
 
Chris Simpson said:
You need to use the same brand of meemory...
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Why? I have two brands of DRAM in my
PC, and they work fine. What could be
brand-specific in DRAM?

*TimDaniels*
 
Timothy Daniels said:
Why? I have two brands of DRAM in my
PC, and they work fine. What could be
brand-specific in DRAM?

*TimDaniels*
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Indeed, I have 2 different PC2700 512Mb sticks in mine AND running in dual
channel mode.
I would guess that the o/p has run into the problem you can sometimes get
mixing double sided sticks with single sided - it don't always work!!

SteveH
 
XP will handle up to 4 GB of RAM. Sounds like you've got timing errors with
a cheap stick of RAM.
 
I just ask this as i have two 512 megs of Crucial Dimms.

I had an extra 256meg dimms branded Exlixir.

So i ponked the extra dimm in and it @*(*(@*(@*@ up.



Any how i booted up with that and i got a memory error ?? and then a
message saying i had missing files ?

Could not even bootup in safe mode :(

Anyway lucky i have a 6 gig Partition just for windows so not alot was
lost as i needed to reformat, prob could have fixed it but its been a
long while since i reinstalled, good time for a clean up i thought.


Anyway anyone got some answers please let me know.
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Of course XP handles more than 1 Gig.

Only thing important is what your mobos manual says about memory
configs. You normally can't just shove anything into any slot.

P4s will run even slower than they are ;-) with current crop of DIMMs
and +1GB. So until your application performance will actually benefit
a lot from +1GB, or you can put in two symmetric 1GB DIMMs, don't
bother.


ancra
 
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