Thats pretty good actually Hook

It just means that with all the programs that you had running at the time, including any system tray programs, operating system processes etc., only half of your physical memory is being used.

Ok thanks Adept.. just thought it would have been higher thats all   but as thats good I will leave well alone now then.


Cheers.. have another on me

Hi there,

right still toying with my mates bag o sh......PC,I would like to offer him choices, New PC or cheapest upgrade which would be a memory upgrade.
 
Now as you can see below [Belarc info] it says this PC has 32MB in slot 0 but only 28MB installed, is that normal or is it a dicky memory module?

Also, have Dimm SDRAM memory upgrades to be installed equally in slots 0 and 1, as I cannot remember and looking on the net using this PC takes forever  

Oh and a search of system info using 'Fresh Diognose' software under the heading Memory Controller indicates each slot will take a maximum of 512MB of memory, and supported speeds are 70ns,  60ns  

When it is booted up the 'Freemem graph' shows no free memory avaliable [ always using hard drive memory ] So which memory would you recommend installing [in total] select from the link  HERE As this is the Memory upgrade suggested in conjunction with the Belarc Advisor linked to the 'Crucial Memory' site [He will most likely be buying from Novatech]

Thanks in advance for any suggestions [of the technical variaty that is ]  

Operating System   System Model
Windows 98 (build 4.10.1998)   iPatriot Model: 740977  
Processor a   Main Circuit Board b
233 megahertz Cyrix MII
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache   Board: EliteGroup Computer System Co., Ltd. P5SS-ME 1.1A
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 4.51 PG 04/30/99
Drives   Memory Modules c,d - Buy More
3.19 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
1.88 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LEOPTICS CD-ROM 24X
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")

Generic IDE hard disk drive (3.19 GB) -- drive 0   28 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot '0' has 32 MB
Slot '1' is Empty
  Local Drive Volumes
     
c: (on drive 0) 3.19 GB 1.88 GB free
 

Hey Tony,dont go modifying your post while I am replying to your original one in future please  

According to the info from your own reading and the one from Crucial(are you in the USA at the moment Tony?I thought youd gone to Scotland   You could check for UK prices on crucial.co.uk you know   )it only supports 66 and 100 bus speeds so although 133 is supposed to be backwards compatable I would stick with one of those 2(unless you buy it from crucial as they guarantee it to work if its one that they say will).
I had problems using generic memory of 133 in 3 PCs with 100 boards and 1 wouldnt work at all and the other 2 read at half size  
If you buy from crucial any speed will work from their recommended bit,this may be better as a 133 may be cheaper now than a 66 or a 100,also if you did get a 133 and you upgrade in the near furure the chances are that you would have a board that supports 133 SDRAM (unless you jump up to one taking DDR)
Your supplied info says its a 66 bus speed but I doubt that you can still get 66 SDRAM easily.
The nano sec,(60 or 70),is the CL of the ram and isnt a significant factor in this PCs case CL2 or CL3 will be fine.
SDRAM can work by itself or in any combinations and doesnt need to be matched pairs like the old SIMMS.
If a board has a 133 bus speed and you use a combination of 133 and 100 SDRAM,all the ram will run at 100.
If you only use one stick it needs to be in slot 0,so if you just get another stick you can move the 32mbs to slot 1 and use the new stick in slot 0.

I think that covers it unless you have modified your post again  

I think hes off in the wilds of Scotland at the moment Brian,so it may not be practical to get one from "Our source"  

Maybe when he gets back home it would be worth a trip over here as hes not far from us ( hes a bit odd though,he used to live in Worsthorne   )  

Then visiting Silloth would make a doctors visit inevitable.

I have flown up to Silloth a few times Tony,(they used to do parachuting onto the,maily disused,airfield there and flew from the club I belonged to at Blackpool airport).

The only time I have been on the ground there was when I foolishly went up with some guys who were testing their racing  motorbikes and a racing "kneeler" sidecar outfit.
The guy on the sidecar told me to get on and hed give me the ride of my life  
I declined at first as I said I wasnt hanging over the side scraping my bum on the ground to stop it tipping up on a left hand corner.
He promised it would be straight up the runway and a right hand turn and straight back.
Never trust a man  
We got to the far end and he shouted "going left and if you dont hang out we will be off"  
As we were doing approximately 120 mph at this point I decided a scraped bum was the better alternative to bouncing along the tarmac  

Overall it was a good day out though but we never really saw the town/village