fenway
07-10-2005, 01:30 AM
Please , some help needed; I have an emachine running win xp home with 128mb
of ram. I installed another stick with 128 mb.I'm confident that it is
installed correctly and is the right match.When I restart ,Windows will not
run, showing a variety of options, including problem with win32k.sys and
page_fault_in_nonpaged_area suggesting that I restart in "safe mode'. When I
choose "safe mode" windows will still not start. Walk me through the
procedure please!!!!! thanks in advance.
"Ken Blake" wrote:
> In news:622A6A9B-6B0F-4613-9371-33AF0940451A@microsoft.com,
> N - Need Of Help- Eisha <N - Need Of Help-
> Eisha@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>
> > Hello ,I was wondering if someone could help me with this I
> > have a
> > dell dimension 4300 and it came with 128 mb of ram and I just
> > updated
> > to 256 mb of ram and it says that I have 384 mb of ram,but when
> > I do
> > a disk defragmenter it says my capacity is 18.64 gb and free
> > space is
> > 4.64 gb and free space is 24%. I thought it should say I have
> > more.
> > Could someone please help,this my second time posting this
> > message.
>
>
> You're mixing up two different things. RAM is memory, the work
> space that your computer uses to operate in. When you turn off
> your computer, the contents of RAM goes away.
>
> The numbers reported by Disk Defragmenter refer to the space
> available on your hard disk drive, not RAM. The hard drive is a
> place where the operating system, programs, and data are stored.
> What you put there stays there, even when you power off, until
> you delete or change it.
>
> Adding 256MB of RAM was good. Having only 128MB is really not
> enough for Windows XP, and the addition should have made a
> substantial improvement in the speed of your computer. But it has
> no effect on the amount of disk space available.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>
of ram. I installed another stick with 128 mb.I'm confident that it is
installed correctly and is the right match.When I restart ,Windows will not
run, showing a variety of options, including problem with win32k.sys and
page_fault_in_nonpaged_area suggesting that I restart in "safe mode'. When I
choose "safe mode" windows will still not start. Walk me through the
procedure please!!!!! thanks in advance.
"Ken Blake" wrote:
> In news:622A6A9B-6B0F-4613-9371-33AF0940451A@microsoft.com,
> N - Need Of Help- Eisha <N - Need Of Help-
> Eisha@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>
> > Hello ,I was wondering if someone could help me with this I
> > have a
> > dell dimension 4300 and it came with 128 mb of ram and I just
> > updated
> > to 256 mb of ram and it says that I have 384 mb of ram,but when
> > I do
> > a disk defragmenter it says my capacity is 18.64 gb and free
> > space is
> > 4.64 gb and free space is 24%. I thought it should say I have
> > more.
> > Could someone please help,this my second time posting this
> > message.
>
>
> You're mixing up two different things. RAM is memory, the work
> space that your computer uses to operate in. When you turn off
> your computer, the contents of RAM goes away.
>
> The numbers reported by Disk Defragmenter refer to the space
> available on your hard disk drive, not RAM. The hard drive is a
> place where the operating system, programs, and data are stored.
> What you put there stays there, even when you power off, until
> you delete or change it.
>
> Adding 256MB of RAM was good. Having only 128MB is really not
> enough for Windows XP, and the addition should have made a
> substantial improvement in the speed of your computer. But it has
> no effect on the amount of disk space available.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>