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Is there anyway to test or find out if the memory is bad?
Everytime I try to open a progam it will start to open
and then just freeze, so I open task manager and it says
it is not responding. Then I have a hard time getting it
to close. I also get the message pretty frequently that I
don't have enough memory, or that I am low on virtual
memory and window is increasing the size of your virtual
memory. My system came with only 128 and I increased it
to 256 as soon as I bought it about 18 months ago. It
started this about a month ago but has gotten real bad
the last week or so. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
 
When you boot your machine up what does the memory check
show?

I have had RAM problems before where I had 768 mb RAM but
it would only show a weird value between 512 and 768. I
found out my 256 stick was toast. When I booted into
windows with that stick still installed I had many
problems.

If you want to test your ram just put one stick in at a
time and boot you system and see how it runs, then
alternate.
 
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When you boot your machine up what does the memory check
show?

I have had RAM problems before where I had 768 mb RAM but
it would only show a weird value between 512 and 768. I
found out my 256 stick was toast. When I booted into
windows with that stick still installed I had many
problems.

If you want to test your ram just put one stick in at a
time and boot you system and see how it runs, then
alternate.


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Thanks for the response. It shows 256 when booted up and
when I go into system info. I am at a loss..
 
brian said:
Is there anyway to test or find out if the memory is bad?
Everytime I try to open a progam it will start to open
and then just freeze, so I open task manager and it says
it is not responding. Then I have a hard time getting it
to close. I also get the message pretty frequently that I
don't have enough memory, or that I am low on virtual
memory and window is increasing the size of your virtual
memory. My system came with only 128 and I increased it
to 256 as soon as I bought it about 18 months ago. It
started this about a month ago but has gotten real bad
the last week or so. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Free memory testing utilities:

1. DocMemory http://www.simmtester.com

2. Windows Memory Diagnostic http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp


Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
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