RAM help.

[Duncan Clench]

Hello again!

 

Quick question. I've installed some new RAM in a colleagues laptop (Dell Inspiron 1721) and I bought a 2gb stick. The laptop has 2 RAM slots which previously had 512mb each and now it's got 1x2gb and 1x512mb.

 

Is this likely to cause problems? IE; do the 2 sticks need to be the same size?

 

Ta muchly. Rep awarded.

[Nick Leeson]

No they'll be fine. Turn it on and see if windows recognises it.

 

If the newer one is faster than the old one; the newer one will drop it's speed to match.

[Duncan Clench]

Thanks mate. So I've effectively not achieved what I wanted anyway if the old stick is slower, which I'm certain it is. I think I'll just get another stick to make sure.

[Nick Leeson]

It'll still make the laptop a lot faster. RAM Speeds won't make that much difference to him unless he's gaming or designing or something

[Duncan Clench]

Hmm well there's nothing like that going on. Just email and Excel really. Outlook freezes up quite a lot. It's running Vista and office 2007 and 1gig RAM isn't enough so it needed increasing anyway. I'll see what happens with the increased RAM and maybe do a repair with the Office disc.

[Nick Leeson]

Have you tried running the laptop? Does it seem faster? Are you able to multitask greater?

[Ezekiel 25:17]

This guy might be able to help:

 

[Liverpool lad]

Bin it

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Me and mark, solving all I.t related problems since April 2009, we should start our own forum, fuck these geeks right off.

[Liverpool lad]

:D

[Nick Leeson]

This guy might be able to help:

 

Smooth, dumbarse

[Duncan Clench]

Have you tried running the laptop? Does it seem faster? Are you able to multitask greater?

 

I've used it and it hasn't improved like I thought it would. I've got 2 colleagues that have the exact same laptop and initially the current 'problem child' ran fine while the other was awful. I changed the RAM on the latter and had great results.

 

I have cleaned the thing to the best of my ability, but something is not quite right. The problem is that this person uses VPN to collect IMAP emails and the laptop doesn't really like it. I know that it's a fairly lame way of doing things but c'est la vie. This is how she works, and it SHOULD work.

 

Luvkily, she doesn't complain much! To be fair, 4gig of RAM will be about 4X as much as it needs so there must be an underlying problem if it doesn't work.

 

I'll be back if it doesn't. I'm looking at it again on friday and I anticipate a whizz-bang of a machine!

[Nick Leeson]

I'm not sure I get what the problem is to be honest. Is her machine generally slow at opening applications now you've increased the RAM or just when she's tunnelling through the VPN?

[DJLJ]

How much shit does she have on the machine? Is it running out of hd space and swapping alot?

[Uncle_Meat]

The advantage of using 2 matched sticks of RAM is that the memory controller will run in dual channel rather than single channel mode. The upshot of this is increased memory bandwidth between the CPU and the rest of the system peripherals. How much of a difference this will make to your system whilst in use (it certainly does not double the speed as the name might suggest) depends upon what the software you are running is doing.

 

Normal applications and use, I seem to recall a few tests giving an average of 5 to 10% increase or so when memory is being accessed in a fairly "average" way, but with some quite larger gains being had with apps that hammer data to and fro across the bus.

[Duncan Clench]

Cheers folks, I'll be having a good crack at it tomorrow and I'll let you know how it goes.

[RedAloy]

Hello again!

 

Quick question. I've installed some new RAM in a colleagues laptop (Dell Inspiron 1721) and I bought a 2gb stick. The laptop has 2 RAM slots which previously had 512mb each and now it's got 1x2gb and 1x512mb.

 

Is this likely to cause problems? IE; do the 2 sticks need to be the same size?

 

Ta muchly. Rep awarded.

 

Make sure the RAM is fully put in as many people lightly stick the RAM in and seem to have some problems later on.

 

Also, don't be too worried if you have re-starting problems several weeks in as that can occur in some Dell machines but for some reason it goes away. I know...a bit weird :eek:

[Duncan Clench]

Thanks. I had one restart problem but no more. I think it's better but will be testing it again on Tuesday.

[dirty_sanchez]

What you need to do is crouch behind the barricade at the front of the carriage. Shoot the krill around his head until they clear and then with either the torque bow or the sniper rifle, shoot him in the head as many times as you can. Repeat until he gets quite near and then leg it down to the other end staying in the light as much as you can. Repeat until he's dead.

 

Helps if you have me or Woo as a wingman though.

[Malarkey]

I'm a PC, and I don't give a fuck.

[odris]

I'm a PC and i back up the above statement.