about the latest ubuntu

[John Heim]

I haven't seen a machine that required matching memory sticks in years. I 
have  mixed and matched them in many different machines over the past 
several years.  I can't say there doesn't still exist machines that require 
matching sticks. But I don't think that is common. In fact, right before I 
sat down to read my email, I took apart a Dell 4100 and it had a 256 Mb 
stick and a 128 Mb stick and it recognized both for what they were. We're 
sending this old beast off to be junked and it's a 1 Ghz machine. That is 
why I think you can get RAM for a machine like that for next to nothing. 
Nobody wants old machines like that any more and you could easily salvage 
the RAM.

But if anyone takes my advice about upgrading RAM by going to a used 
computer store, it probably wouldn't hurt to pull the existing stick out and 
take it with you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <talmage at somtel.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:16 AM
Subject: RE: about the latest ubuntu


> That's not necessarily true.
> It's system dependent.
> Factors include Bios and motherboard.
> To find out what, and how to add memory, the best source is your
> computer, or motherboard's, manual.
>
> At 10:25 AM 4/4/2007, you wrote:
>>If your going to upgrade memory sticks you need to make sure they're all 
>>the
>>same value, (IE. 256 = 2 128 modules or 1 256 module), if you mix 
>>different
>>size modules you'll end up with the higher sized memory running at the
>>lowest size in your machine. So, if your running a 256 module and add a 
>>128
>>module you'll still only be running 256 total instead of 384mb. HTH
>
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