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What could go wrong with my cheap memory?
« on: July 06, 2003, 03:46:02 PM »
Well after having my cheap memory sticks of 256 MB PC 133 SDRAM for almost 2 years, I've decided to take them on a nice little test. So I did. One's completely fine. Another one is partially bad, but not as bad as the last one. In about 2 hours of testing it had a good 780 errors or so. Ya, guess something was bound to happen.
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Re: What could go wrong with my cheap memory?
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2003, 11:27:53 PM »
your lucky you're lasted that long.  EUOL bought some and it crashed his computer when he put it in.
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Re: What could go wrong with my cheap memory?
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2003, 02:36:08 AM »
Mine wasn't cheap ram, let me correct.  It was nice ram, but used.  It slowed my computer down, we think because my older version of windows was confused by having so much memory.
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Re: What could go wrong with my cheap memory?
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2003, 02:47:24 AM »
The only Windows OS' that take full advantage of over 512 MBs RAM are XP and 2000 I believe.
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Re: What could go wrong with my cheap memory?
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2003, 08:03:02 AM »
Yeah, that's what Tage guessed the problem was.
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