messed up RAM install...help!

Sphinx317 · 03-29-2008, 02:28 AM

I beefed up my inspiron 6000 since it's 2 years old...it originally had 2 512 meg sticks in it, and I replaced one with a gig, putting it under my processor at 1.6 ghz...

Well, here's the problem...

I use an external hard drive to run a lot of my programs (games and such), so its required that I devote memory to that drive, while still keeping enough memory for my c drive to run effectively. Now that I've installed and changed the alotted memory for each drive, my computer doesn't have enough memory to hibernate (which means there's a problem) as well as it still continues to run fairly slow. Is there a better way to make sure the memory is partitioned for each drive? More or less, what did I do wrong that I need to now fix? thanks to anyone that can help!!!!

PC eye · 03-29-2008, 10:04 AM

For one only hard drives are partitioned. Besides recommending having gone with a pair of 1gb dimms to see the overall increase in memory that way installing games and other programs on external drives is a natural slowdown as well as recipe for headaches. External drives are intended mainly for storage and backup purposes.

Generally you allot so much drive space for the system restore feature and the paging file tat uses hard drive space for virtual memory. When changing the settings you apparently too much away from the C drive to allocate to the one or more other drives in use there. For both the restore points and paging here those are left on the host with no other drive being checked off.

03-29-2008, 02:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
Sphinx317 New Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1	messed up RAM install...help! I beefed up my inspiron 6000 since it's 2 years old...it originally had 2 512 meg sticks in it, and I replaced one with a gig, putting it under my processor at 1.6 ghz... Well, here's the problem... I use an external hard drive to run a lot of my programs (games and such), so its required that I devote memory to that drive, while still keeping enough memory for my c drive to run effectively. Now that I've installed and changed the alotted memory for each drive, my computer doesn't have enough memory to hibernate (which means there's a problem) as well as it still continues to run fairly slow. Is there a better way to make sure the memory is partitioned for each drive? More or less, what did I do wrong that I need to now fix? thanks to anyone that can help!!!!

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03-29-2008, 10:04 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	For one only hard drives are partitioned. Besides recommending having gone with a pair of 1gb dimms to see the overall increase in memory that way installing games and other programs on external drives is a natural slowdown as well as recipe for headaches. External drives are intended mainly for storage and backup purposes. Generally you allot so much drive space for the system restore feature and the paging file tat uses hard drive space for virtual memory. When changing the settings you apparently too much away from the C drive to allocate to the one or more other drives in use there. For both the restore points and paging here those are left on the host with no other drive being checked off.