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It's an older PC, 1.4 Pentium, just under 1GB of RAM (768MB).



768mb of ram.

Is your motherboard DDR capable?

Is that a P4 chip?

If so, you could be taking a big hit in the ram dept. with that "odd" number of ram forcing the mobo BIOS to revert to single-density ram operation. Double-Density will give you 2 readings per clock cycle instead of one, effectively doubling what your ram can do. In that instance, 768megs of ram will not do as much as two 256m sticks that are DDR (equivalent of 1gig of single density).


--Mac



Mac, it seems that just about everytime I read your posts, I learn something new! Thanks for that. I'm starting to think that Peter and company should just hire you as the Tech "Go Too" guy when people have issues!

Ed