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RAM

Apr 4, 2004 5:23AM PDT

I have a HP Pavilion PC running 256mb Ram and running WinXp. I tried installing a game (Nascar Thunder 2004) which requires 256mb Ram with WinXp. When I look at system properties for the PC it say's there is 248mb Ram. How do I change it to have 256mb.

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Re:RAM (256 is not 256...)
Apr 4, 2004 6:01AM PDT

Your machine uses some RAM for the video display. The fixes are to add another stick of RAM and to add another stick of RAM.

Most of these machines can't "disable" the onboard video when you add a new video card, so your solution still comes back to add another stick of RAM.

Sorry to repeat that.

bob

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Re:Re:RAM (256 is not 256...)
Apr 4, 2004 2:55PM PDT

Sorry, Bob is correct, 256 megs of RAM is not 256 megs of RAM. Your computer always uses a certain amount of your availible RAM to do other applications (such as Bob says with video). Other apps. may be if you have an antivirus which is on 24/7, or other such things as a firewall, etc., etc.