Originally posted by: OrkinYards
I have a ECS motherboard with a 256 MB DDR (pc2100) on it and have had a couple of problems with not enough memory messages popping up when i'm running several programs. Someone told me that how the ram is placed on the mother board might have something to do with it, but i only have 2 slots....when building the computher i thought that there was only one location a single chip would work in.....should i just order another chip or what? Thanks in advance
Jeff
Your trouble could be related to System Resources as much as it is to RAM. In fact, I think you should tackle those first and see if you can clear up some extra bandwidth for multi-tasking. Trying to go into detail on this would be a bit time consuming so you really need to do some research for yourself. However, to get you started, you can get a decent explanation of the troubles
here and a little bit more
here. Also, as a start, you could go into MSCONFIG and eliminate some of the "extra" items you have running at startup. Of course, if you have Win 9x, you could also switch/upgrade to XP and eliminate
most of these kind of worries. Good Luck!