memory upgrade

IMPORTANT NEWS I am pleased to announce that Windows 7 Forums is fully upgrading its hardware capabilities to the maximum possible threshold. We will be increasing our memory, processor, and networking capabilities to an extent that will meet current requirements and exceed future requirements...

this is what I did, my new laptop came with 2gb of memory, so I added a new 2gb module to bring the memory up to the maximum allowed for this model of 4gb. The system recognizes the new memory and shows a total of 4gb, and I did a memory diagnosis and that checked out ok. The problem is...

When I look in a utility program that gives detailed specs of your system, it states DDR2 RAM Speed 400MHz Screen shot is attached. Now check Corsair XMS2 4GB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory Upgrade - 2x2048MB at TigerDirect.com This states 800 MHz. Are they summing the two chips to get the...

My Dell Precision 670 will not boot Windows 7 after upgrading the memory to 8GB. Configuration follows: *BIOS A06 *2 x 4GB SIMMS in slots 1 and 2. These are correct WS670/4GB PC3200 EEC registered modules as recommended. *memory fan is installed *3 SCSI drives with Adaptec 7901 RAID...

i just recently upgraded my memory on my gateway m 1617 to run a 64bit operating system. I installed windows 7 home premium and everything works great until i wake my computer from sleep mode, after i wake it up it has a X over the volume controls in the toolbar and when i get menus that pop up...

Hi all...am new to this forum and from what I've seen so far, you folks seem to be doing great things for each other! So, I hope you'll be able to help me. I have a fairly old (about 3 years) HP machine - an xw4200 but I like it and it and when I ran the Windows 7 compatability check, it gave...

Now that I have switched from 32 bit to 64 bit I have a question on memory. My motherboard only takes 4gb memory at max. What I am wondering now that I have gone to Win7 home premium 64 bit can I install more memory or will that crash my computer? I would like to double my memory to 8gb. Hope...

I bought the Windows 7 professional 32 bit, done step by step guide to change from XP. Installation went well in the custom installation-message appeared for the computer to restart to complete installation. Windows 7 screen appears and the thoughts are that it had installed. "The computer...

I installed Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit a month ago in place of XP (Home). I had previously checked that everything would be compatible with Win7 before installing it, and it installed with no problems. From the first day, however, I started getting random crashes, often when a picture changed...

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 to get the Media Centre for recording TV. I used to use MediaPortal on Windows XP but the scheduled recording was unreliable. The recording in MCE is great but when I watch back the sound soon starts to degrade and become what I can only describe as "bubbly"...

I purchased the Family Pack upgrade a few days ago and have upgraded a deks top and two laptop computers. I am very pleased with Windows 7 and its' operation on all these coputers and have only encountered one problem. I have a laptop which was running XP. After upgrading in the 32 bit...

Well, here 'ya go. It's almost midnight. I have been working on this installation every night when I get home from work since Friday the 23rd. Many, many hours now. I'm going to reveal my solution to this installation problem right after this lengthy, yet abbriviated diatribe: I downloaded...

I notice the "generic" HP2200 drivers don't allow me to set the printer's memory to in excess of 512MB of RAM & also don't allow for my additional 500-sheet paper tray which sits beneath the printer. Great printer BTW. It replaces my HP5L which I rebuilt twice over a 12 year period before...

Heya People I'm just writing as i am abit confused about i've seen about my System RAM. I'm currently running 64bit windows 7 Professional, AMD 9500 Quad Core Processor, 2x GeForce 98000 GTX SLI'ed and 6Gb of RAM installed in my computer, but windows says only 4.75Gb of this RAM is usaable...

Hi I have been using Windows 7 x64 for a couple of weeks now with no problems. I had 4gig of memory and thought now that I was using a 64bit system I would add some more memory. My new memory arrived today, put it in and booted windows 7, checked how much memory it was showing and could see that...

whenever i try to connect to a server on UT3, the game crashes. i've tried changing the compatibility settings, but it didn't work with any of the combinations i tried. i just installed the latest graphics driver from nVidia and the latest game patch from Epic, but neither helped. the only thing...

Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Video: NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GT w/512MB RAM: Kingston HyperX PC3200 I loaded 64-bit Windows 7 RC with only 2GB of RAM. I recently bought an additional 2 GB of RAM and when I installed it, Windows 7 starts to boot then see a quick blue screen and reboots. 1...

So I have 6 gb ram (4 corsair 2 G.Skill) but when I go to my system properties it shows Installed Memory: 6.00 GB (3.00 GB usable). When I pull the 2 G.skill's out it reads: Installed Memory: 4.00 GB (3.5 GB usable). Two questions: why is it when I decrease my ram from 6 to 4 GB do I...

Hi All, Win 7 works perfectly for me so far until recently I added additional ram to my system. I have 4gb(2slots) of DDR2 Ram installed currently, but when I added an additional set of 4Gb(Same Company/Speed/Brand/Line) my mobo and Win7 recognizes the additional Ram but I get a Message...

Hello, I got a new comp after Windows XP Installation fried my old comp, so I'm going to get Windows Vista Home Premium UPGRADE (LOL bad idea huh if my last one fried from XP?) My system specs are... (I got this PC for 300$) Dell Dimension 4600i ~2.80 GHz Processor, Pentium 4 with...