-Skip2Maloo- wrote:

"stacey" wrote in message
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-Skip2Maloo- wrote:

I have two 256 Mb stick in each DIMM. If I
take out one of the sticks, everything works fine...

What OS? Did it ever work right with both sticks and just now started
this out of the blue? Or is this a new ram setup and now it's acting up?

BTW using OE for anything is asking for problems, it and outlook are
virus magnets.

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Stacey

I'm sorry I didn't mention the OS the first time ... XP Home.

The machine has worked flawlessly with this RAM configuration for about a
year. This problem has only come up in the last 3 weeks or so. As best I
can remember, I didn't make any modifications to the machine in this time
frame that would account for this problem.

I just performed a little experiment just to see what would happen. I
replaced one of the 256 MB sticks with an older 64 MB stick just to see
what would happen with 2 sticks of any kind in the DIMMs. The machine
worked perfectly, no problems with the web pages, Photoshop or OE. I'm not
sure what this tells me, except for the fact that having 2 memory modules
in the machine isn't the problem.


Sounds like something is wrong with one of the 256 sticks. Seen ram that
works fine by itself but chokes when installed with another stick.

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Stacey