Hey guys, Im at a buddys place trying to help him fix his computer here, and hes runnin XP with 128MB Ram and its slow lol. I had some old DDR sticks at my house but i dont know what speed they are or anything as theres no markings on them. I dont think they would work anyway because theres only 2 DDR slots on the motherboard, and the stick thats in there only has the chips on one side of it, the other side is just flat. If you could give me a site to grab the info i need to let u guys know about the motherboard or whatever info you need to recommend what Ram i should pick up to add to the stick in there, or just pick up a new stick altogether. Thanks Chris
well first of all you need to findo out what kind of computer it is. im guessing that the pc is probably pretty old since it only has 128 meg of ram... so it probably isnt going to take DDR ram more likeley to have old PC100 / PC133 ram if anything tell us what the system specs are and well help you out as best we can
or just go here and enter the details and it should come up with memory upgrade opions http://www.crucial.com/store/listmfgr.asp?cat=RAM then u can search the internet or come back here (always adviseable ) and we can recommend.
your friend is probably running pc2100 speed ram as i had a customer running xp on 128meg. try the sticks of ddr you have to see if motherboard sees or doesn't see the ram.
Yea i also had a PC with 128MB Ram but it was running windows millenium......lol i didn't think you could run XP on computer with that 128MB Ram and also if it was old then i didn't think XP would fit on a stock HDD because those PC's probubly only had 20 gig at most....
xp home uses 1.6gig of storage & xp pro uses 2.1gig of storage never mind all other programs. so a 20gig is lots of room for xp. also min requirements for ram is 128meg but supposedly can do it with 64meg but will be a pig at that.
o yea never mnd i just remebered my pc was a 64 MB ram ..lol yea that is why i didn't install it and it only had about 1.2 gig left
Based on the fact that it only had 128MB of RAM, I'm assuming that it is a pretty old system. If I were in your place, I'd probally just buy a new computer. There's a possibility that you probally could upgrade it up to 2GB of RAM, but I don't know if the correct speed is still out there.
