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Azrael256 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 18, 2009, 05:19:17 AM »

Mixing single and dual channel will disable interleaving.

XP will recognize 4GB, but it will likely show up as 3.5 or so because of your other devices (usually video does most of it).

lee n. field · « **Reply #26 on:** July 18, 2009, 10:17:07 AM »

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Kingston? Gskill? Corsair? What say you?

Kingston's what I usually sell people. No problems.

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32-bit XP Pro will recognize up to 4GB, right?

Yes and no. BIOS will say 4GB, Windows will say something less, like 3.5 GB. A necessary chunk of the memory space needs to get used for other stuff.

That's Just The Way It Is.

Thor · « **Reply #27 on:** July 18, 2009, 11:53:14 AM »

I've been a fan of Crucial memory when I need some extra RAM.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #28 on:** July 18, 2009, 11:58:17 AM »

Got a coupon from New Egg, and they appear to have the better prices anyway.

Fly320s · « **Reply #29 on:** July 18, 2009, 08:22:37 PM »

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Which ram is best?

Dodge?

Ibex?

Battering?

RocketMan · « **Reply #30 on:** July 18, 2009, 08:27:01 PM »

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Which RAM is best?

Quote from: Fly320s on July 18, 2009, 08:22:37 PM

Dodge?

Ibex?

Battering?

Air Turbine?

Jet?

Silver Bullet · « **Reply #31 on:** July 18, 2009, 08:46:10 PM »

Quote from: Thor on July 18, 2009, 11:53:14 AM

I've been a fan of Crucial memory when I need some extra RAM.

Crucial has a great reputation among Mac users, at least it did a few years ago, when last I looked into it.

Nick1911 · « **Reply #32 on:** July 18, 2009, 09:42:06 PM »

Memory either works, or it doesn't. I haven't noticed any difference in long term reliability from ANY manufacturer, even cheap brands like PNY.

After you put in some RAM, run Memtest86+ overnight. If you don't get any errors, you're golden. If you do, even if you only get one single bit of error, take the ram back - it's trash.

Memtest86+ is on the Fedora 11 live CD, which is open source and free to download.

lee n. field · « **Reply #33 on:** July 18, 2009, 09:53:02 PM »

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I haven't noticed any difference in long term reliability from ANY manufacturer, even cheap brands like PNY.

Not now. Not for a while. I do remember, back in the mid-90s getting a bad batch from a dubious third tier vendor. Each and every one of a dozen or so sticks ended up needing to get replaced.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #34 on:** July 22, 2009, 12:30:20 AM »

Anyone using it yet?

On another machine, I'm using Firefox 3.5 Beta 4. No issues with it, but I don't use it much. I like the feature that allows you to drag and drop tabs.

crt360 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 22, 2009, 02:14:20 AM »

I am. What's supposed to happen when you drag and drop a tab?

S. Williamson · « **Reply #36 on:** July 22, 2009, 02:17:20 AM »

It downloads the internet.

Seriously.

Gowen · « **Reply #37 on:** July 22, 2009, 02:28:19 AM »

I checked for up dates one day last week and it came up. I have been using it since with no problems.

Regolith · « **Reply #38 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:35:28 AM »

I'm using it. Works fine for me.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #39 on:** July 22, 2009, 11:04:59 AM »

Works for me at home.

My 4 year old Dell Inspirion with a pokey Celeron in it surfs about 4x faster than Mrs. Dual's brand new Toshiba with Vista and IE 8...

K Frame · « **Reply #40 on:** July 22, 2009, 11:22:10 AM »

I've not downloaded it yet. I think I'm still running 3.1 at home.

MillCreek · « **Reply #41 on:** July 22, 2009, 11:59:05 AM »

I find it to be significantly faster than earlier versions of Firefox. Chrome is faster still, but does not have the addons I like.

Unisaw · « **Reply #42 on:** July 22, 2009, 12:23:59 PM »

I'm using it on a Vista machine with no problems at all.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #43 on:** July 22, 2009, 05:41:51 PM »

I'm still using Firefox 2.0.0.20. There's too much to dislike about Firefox 3.xx ... starting with the goofy way it displays recently-visted sites when you start to type a new URL into the address window. And ... THERE'S NO WAY TO TURN IT OFF (except an add-on)!

Nick1911 · « **Reply #44 on:** July 22, 2009, 05:44:38 PM »

I dislike firefox 3.x.

I've replaced it with Google Chrome.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #45 on:** July 22, 2009, 06:03:12 PM »

Quote from: Hawkmoon on July 22, 2009, 05:41:51 PM

THERE'S NO WAY TO TURN IT OFF (except an add-on)!

Such as? I hate that too, just not as much as you do, I guess.

Leatherneck · « **Reply #46 on:** July 22, 2009, 06:20:25 PM »

I'm with hawkmoon--2.0.....

Old, slow machine.

TC

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #47 on:** July 22, 2009, 11:45:20 PM »

In a few days, I'll be switching out the motherboard in this machine. I had a problem, and Dell sent me a new motherboard. I thought it would be pretty straightforward, until I saw the three disks of drivers, diagnostics and utilities they shipped with it. What sort of issues should I expect?

I bought this machine used a few months ago, and I think it was a pretty good deal. Still under warranty, too.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #48 on:** July 23, 2009, 12:56:10 AM »

If it's the exact same motherboard, BIOS, and chipset, you won't need any of them.

Windows has drivers for the chipsets, integrated video, the network adapter, USB etc. that may be on there. If Windows Plug & Play goes nuts when you boot back up for the first time, generally, sticking in those disks as it asks for them should be relatively painless.

Owens · « **Reply #49 on:** July 23, 2009, 08:33:28 AM »

If you use Firefox 3.0.?? use this add-on to clear the location bar: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7429

In ver 3.5, there is an option to select for what is displayed. No need to use the add on.

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