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Windows ME

You might not be able to. It depends on your motherboard's BIOS.

First thing you need to do is find out what your RAM is rated for. Micron chips are really easy to figure out because the speed is printed right on the chips.
Generally, this is a good guide:
8ns = PC100 CAS3
7.5ns = PC133 CAS3
7ns = PC133 CAS2

That's just a guide, since most times, good quality memory can run faster than it's spec'ed to.

As for changing how the system runs the memory, you need to determine if your BIOS allows you to configure that. On the motherboard I was using (Asus P3V4X), there was a memory option (called SDRAM Configuration) to determine the settings from the SPD or to set them manually. You'd need to check for a similar setting in your BIOS. If you're not sure about what you're doing, ask before you touch anything!



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spidergoolash: "heh, a cup of diesel dan - mwahhha"
me: "heh, a cup of me is like a cup of heaven!"
 
Well I recently got ME like 3 or 4 weeks ago, and also a "brand new" computer. My bro built everything, and so far kinda good. I'm not sure if it's because my bro built it or because of windows, but sometimes this computer just does stupid shiznik. It'll restart on its own, freeze to death and needa restart manually, or not even run some programs. Like Total Annihilation, I can't load a game or even play.
Hmmmmmmm
But I wanna keep ME as it has Pinball! YAY!

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Sounds like it could be the OS, or flaky memory, heat, or possibly a bad power supply.
I'd lean towards memory, since it can behave normally at times, but when it flakes, it can make the OS do whacky things.

I had a system I built this weekend that was doing all sorts of crazy things. Ends up the RAM was working, but flaky.
For whatever reason, the SPD was reporting it as CAS2, when it's actually CAS3 PC100. When running at CAS2, Windows would install, but other programs would crash when installing. When the OS got horked and I had to start over from scratch, I couldn't get Windows installed without a crash during install.

Once I manually set the memory to run at CAS3, everything ran fine. Managed to put on Win98, several apps, and upgraded to 98SE without a hitch.

Might be something you want to check...
99% of the time, random lockups and crashes are due to bad RAM or heat.


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spidergoolash: "heh, a cup of diesel dan - mwahhha"
me: "heh, a cup of me is like a cup of heaven!"
 
just bumping this up for myself to read later. heh. i heard that the "go back" feature on me doesn't even work half the time
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jeez, if i get a new computer, which version of windows do i get w/it ??

i'm just an at-home, internet surfin', e-mail reading type of spidey
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"only a white man would build a fire for everyone to see."

[crawl]resident spiderMOD[/crawl] "to know her is to FEAR her."
 
Well, if you wait till the Fall (I believe it's October 25th to be exact) to get a new computer, Microsoft's newest OS, Windows XP , will probably be on it. XP is based on NT code, and is basically the next version of Windows 2000 (there will be a Home and a Professional version). They've changed a lot of the graphical user interface (though I believe it can all be set back to look like the Windows everyone's already accustomed to), which I actually like. Here's a good site with a Beta review, as well as some screenshots: winsupersite.com

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"May those who love us love us. And those who don't love us-- may God turn their hearts. And if He cannot turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles, so that we may know them by their limping." -- Keeping the Faith
 
There are a lot of drawbacks to XP, such as the registration licensing system. I wouldn't count on it being the savior that Microsoft is claiming it to be.
Also, Windows 2000 has a ton of bugs in it. I think they should work on some Service Packs to fix the problems in a still relatively new OS than to try to come out with its successor. NT4 has been around since roughly '96/97. Windows 2000 came out in 2000, so that means that it took MS 4 years to come up with a worthy successor to NT4, but only 1 year to outdo that OS?!?

Seems to me that they just want to sucker consumers into buying a new major upgrade that's probably nothing more than a flashier GUI and some bug fixes.

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I've been running Win2K since November 1999. I've had no complaints and no issues with it. Service Pack 2 was just released for it within the past two weeks. It plays all my games perfectly fine, and has excellent stability. It's the perfect OS for the casual user as well as the power gamer. A lot less spastic than WinME or Win98SE.

Only thing I can think of that throws most people for a loop is having ACPI enabled in BIOS -- but that usually isn't an issue unless you have a lot of hardware installed, such as additional SCSI controllers, tv-tuner/video captures, etc...

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thanks for all this info. guys. everyone here is always a big help to me; and nootch, thanks for the screen shots
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"only a white man would build a fire for everyone to see."

[crawl]resident spiderMOD[/crawl] "to know her is to FEAR her."
 
BRiT&gt; Unlike you, I've had a lot of issues with Win2k. I've had lockups, freezes, and installation problems.
In most cases, they were hardware-related, but only in the way that Win2k handles IRQ sharing and ACPI. Win2k's ACPI throws people for a loop because the implementation of it is totally FUBAR'ed.

SP2 just came out, and already the reports are so bad that it's convinced me to not install it. Problems reported include printing problems, display incompatiblities which didn't exist before installation of SP2, and RAS issues.

Unfortunately, some of my favorite games will not play on Win2k, namely the Need For Speed series. Supposedly, there are hacks which can make them work, but I haven't gotten the hacks to work either.

I think that, out of the 6 installations I've done on my own machines, I've only had 2 that didn't give me trouble, either before, during, or after installation. It's a good OS when it works, but it's far from perfect.

I'm not trying to dispute your claims, because I have found it to be a good OS when I can get it to work, but it's hardly as perfect as you say.

I would also be very hesitant to recommend it for the casual user, as you have, unless they have a heartfelt need to get involved in user administration, permissions administration, and profile administration. Most "casual users" don't even have a clue as to what those things entail, much less how to efficiently administer them. There is a reason MS doesn't market Win2k to home users.

I know you're much more technically proficient than most typical home users, so it's important to understand that you are not part of that group, and their knowledge level isn't anywhere close to yours.

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Not AOHELL
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I will never buy this with aohell installed on it. AOL=BAD

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Everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon - Pink Floyd

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