Wall of Mouths

If you don’t know how to figure out which memory is planted in your computer, are you sure you want to upgrade it yourself?

If you open up the case, you can get the memory out and check whether there is written DDR333 or DDR400 on it.
If you haven’t got a clue waht the memory is in your computer, go to your nearest computershop with it, and let them figure it out and buy the upgrade there. Otherwise you might end up with having no cumnpter at all anymore. ;)

if you’re using windows can you not just go to “control panel” and then “system” via the start menu to find out RAM info? i’m a spoon with computers though, and i’m probably answering the wrong question.

Plus the fact that there are newer types of RAM about that won’t physically fit an older motherboard.

If you’ve got a Dell (I assuming from your link), try contacting them and asking. Especially if you ordered it through them, they should have the original order in their records.

Or, if you still have the user guide that came with the machine, it should tell you.

gimmie wrote:

I think most modern computers use SD ram (DDR), gotta be careful with what type of ddr it is tho, my motherboard only accepts ddr330. (but my mobo is from 2003)

I think DDR2 is becoming more common? I’m not entirely sure, though. :s

If you would have had an IBM instead of a dodgy Dell you could have posted the serial number and you would have had the admin file with all the details in seconds :p

I also should mention that if it’s older then it will have SD’RAM in it, these were avilaible at clock speeds of SD100 (100Mhz bus speed) or SD133 (133Mhz bus speed) -
The bus speed it all dependable on the processor - and vice versa.

If you can get me the Asset Tag which should be on your PC/laptop then I should be able to tell you for sure what RAM you need to buy :)

Commuter help as requested:

Make sure you leave the house nice and early - better to spend a bit of time reading your newspaper on the platform and arrive at work on time and relaxed rather than miss your train and get to work late and flustered - and also make sure you keep the local travel line number in your phone in case a train is cancelled and you need to find out the bus times.
A season ticket or travel card will help to keep the cost down and will save time queueing at machines/kiosks for tickets every day.

Some carriages will have plug in points for laptops, so take yours with you on longer journeys and you may even be able to work whilst you travel.

That’s as maybe, but I never miss my morning train.

Cuchulain wrote:

* nominates AutoSurgery for Nerd of The Year in Wommie Awards thread * ;)

Thanks :D You sound just like my misses

You could try control alt delete, go to Processes and see what’s eating up all the memory. If you know what it is, then stop running it. If you don’t, you could try to kill the memory-hungry process(es) anyway, but your system might crash. :)

Download Iomatic Ram Medic, too. That’ll show you how much is being used, and can help to clear up some space as well, ifyou’re lucky. (It’s free, just find it in a search engine).

There’s probably better advice out there, but that’s the best I have. :(

Make sure you have all of your BT Broadband credentials, i.e. username & password as well as the installation disk.

Go to the Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Scroll down and find everything associated with ‘BT’ Broadband.
Uninstall everything. Once your unable to find any entries in the ‘Add or Remove Programs’ list associated with BT (usually BT is somewhere in the title) disconnect the modem (USB cable) and restart the PC.

When it reboots, stick the origonal installation disk in and follow the on screen instruction (only plug the modem back into the USB port when prompted to do so or this will cause the setup to fail) as you would of when you first recieved it.

The problem you describe are very common for BT and I’ve had to do this for a few friends, try to avoid the shite tech support as you’ll speak to some guy in India.

If you do all of the above as I’ve described you should find your internet connectivity returns to normal.

If it is memory leak, Iomatic Ram Medic helps counter it. Basically you set an emergency low level of RAM, and a preferred level of RAM. If the actual memory drops down below the first level, RAM Medic will try to free up all the memory that is being wasted, up to the preferred level.

I think I just made that more confusing than it is. :(

But it’s well worth a try. It’s really simple to use.

If you have something that is eating memory, click the start button then choose ‘Run’

Type ‘msconfig’ in the box and click on the start up.

Check the services and startup tabs (the startup in particular)

Have a look through that and see if there is anything on there that strikes you as odd - you can google each of the startup items to see if they are genuine programs or often associated with spyware/viruses.