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the RAM switch seemed to help
14 years ago
okay, so the computer's been running two-threedayish on this 512 RAM with no freezes.
it had some serious lagtime when i booted up photoshop, but again. that's expected when you're running on like half the memory you previously had. also, that exceptionally finnicky weird wirrrrring noise has gone. i've never known RAM to make noise, but maybe it was something stupid like the stick was only half-in and vibrating?
either way if the laptop makes it to thursday without crashing, i'll start scouring newegg for new RAM. i can't go about 4gigs because i'm running XP pro and its brain can't concieve of a number bigger than 3.5 :O hopefully this will make it easier for me to find RAM. or cheaper.
we're really trying to save money wth the house right now. our oil tank is almost empty, so we put the heat down to 49 and busted out the space heaters. it is so viciously cold. i had to wear gloves to work on the last comic page towards the end there. the cat is fine - she knows how to climb under blankets. the rat is also fine - threw her an old shirt and she made herself a warm little nest in the corner of her cage.
but i'm...i dunno. nervous? anxious? worried i guess. i only have two more weeks to raise mortgage and i can only assure myself i've got enough work to make half of it. i guess i can open up like con badge commissions later this week.
oh well. tally ho, upwards and onwards.
it had some serious lagtime when i booted up photoshop, but again. that's expected when you're running on like half the memory you previously had. also, that exceptionally finnicky weird wirrrrring noise has gone. i've never known RAM to make noise, but maybe it was something stupid like the stick was only half-in and vibrating?
either way if the laptop makes it to thursday without crashing, i'll start scouring newegg for new RAM. i can't go about 4gigs because i'm running XP pro and its brain can't concieve of a number bigger than 3.5 :O hopefully this will make it easier for me to find RAM. or cheaper.
we're really trying to save money wth the house right now. our oil tank is almost empty, so we put the heat down to 49 and busted out the space heaters. it is so viciously cold. i had to wear gloves to work on the last comic page towards the end there. the cat is fine - she knows how to climb under blankets. the rat is also fine - threw her an old shirt and she made herself a warm little nest in the corner of her cage.
but i'm...i dunno. nervous? anxious? worried i guess. i only have two more weeks to raise mortgage and i can only assure myself i've got enough work to make half of it. i guess i can open up like con badge commissions later this week.
oh well. tally ho, upwards and onwards.
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You might try to use the program Memtest to check your previous RAM and see if it's ok. Run it overnight or somesuch.
hmm. i'd suspect the fan except for a few factors.
1- it's still blowing out the back, and was with the old mem too. pretty reliably.
2- i spun it both ways with a few puffs of canned air, trying to get it to make the sound i'd been hearing. no dice. i had it spinning pretty hard too.
3- i can hear the fan, and it was seperate from the initial weird buzzing noise.
i dunno. i really don't think it's the fan. i thought briefly it might have been a bearing on one of my external HDs, but swapping the RAM silenced it so it can't be that.
512 ram stinks so bad though. i can't watch a movie on netflix and run photoshop at the same time, what horsehockey is this.
You can screw up an inadequately-cooled PC with Orthos though. Which is why it should always be run alongside Coretemp, SpeedFan or MBM :)
As to messing up the pc with orthos or any other cpu loading program, if one of them is capable of that then the machine was on the way out anyways.
Well you might be able to put 4GB in there, but you're right about the limit. It's basically 4GB minus however much the graphics card snaffles, minus a little more for Computer Spite ™. When I had XP going on this thing, I had 3GB available. You might well be limited to 2GB by the laptop... I know my old Thinkpad would take 2GB and that was your lot.
i'd be shocked if this only took 2gb. it had a 2gb RAM in it from the get-go, and had a spare slot implying that it could take more.