Tech help re my computer memory.

[Stat Brother]

I AM COMPUTER RETARD.

Apparantly this computer has 127mb and for the t'internet package I'm looking at I need 128mb.
Other than the fact I'm 1mb short, that means nothing to me, because I AM COMPUTER RETARD.

If it helps this is an old(ish) comp, windows xp, Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.30GHz 2293MHz processor (I copied that from somewhere else). Used for general internetting and has a load of photos stored on it, that's it. No gaming or TV watching.

So how do I get this 1mb.:-
Do I have it?
Have I lost it?
Am I currently using it for something else?
Where can I get some more?

Please remember when answering I AM COMPUTER RETARD, so if replies don't involve the words, thingy, wotsit, and duburry I'm not going to understand.

Any help will certainly be welcome.

 

[clippedgull]

you might be getting confused. it might mean you need 128mb disk space available to install the package.

 

[Stat Brother]

wot

 

[Cian]

You'll be fine - you have 128MB but the graphics card is taking 1MB. That PC will be slow as muck anyway.

You can get RAM added by any reputable computer store - and PC World, too. I would suggest you get as much as you can afford - and as its dirt cheap, this means get as much as the PC will take. Also ask them to increase the "stolen" video memory if doing this, it'll make anything graphical - Youtube to games and everything in between - much faster.

 

[Dave the OAP]

on the desktop, possibly down the bottom you should have an ICON called windows explorer....Click it....

there will be list of what you have in your machine.......one called MY COMPUTER....click it

there will be list of stuff...choose the C:\ drive

right click it and click PROPERTIES

that will show you in pie chart form what you have on your hard disk.

Put on here the fiuures then we can tell you what to do

 

[Marshy]

the purchase of more memory is required.

You could increase virtual memory but lets not go there....just buy new.

alternatively time to get a new pc which cost next to nothing these days.

 

[Razi]

It'll run fine. Although 128mb is very little these days, particularly running XP, so I imagine it's probably pretty slow anyway. Most modern PCs have around 1gb (1,000mb).

Also, don't be confusing memory and hard disk space. It's the most common thing that people confuse in computers, but are both very different from each other.

Imagine your Hard Disk Space to be a filing cabinet. You can store a certain amount of information in there, but you have to keep going to the cabinet to get more information when you need it. It takes a little bit longer to get what you want, but that's where all of your documents are kept.

Now, if you take a file out of that filing cabinet and put it on your desk, you can keep referring to it when you need to without having to go back and forth to the filing cabinet. That file is like your computer's Memory. It's much quicker for you, but the file only holds a fraction of the information that your filing cabinet holds.


The requirement that your internet thing is asking about is your Memory. It typically appears as 64mb, 128mb, 256mb, 512mb, or 1024mb (1gb) on most PCs. The more memory you have, the more files you can have on your desk at one time without having to go back to that filing cabinet - so things happen quicker and smoother.

Hard disk/Filing Cabinet space these days is commonly in excess of 300gb (I have a portable hard drive the size of a passport that holds 150gb). That's a lot of files in the filing cabinet!

Hope that helps.

 

[Stat Brother]

I'm liking your style Dave, I did all of that without a nose bleed.

Anyway the pie has a 1/4 taken out.
Used 14.2gb
Free 60.1gb
Capacity 74.4gb

Once again that means nothing to me, so just going to pop out and take The NSC champion tipsters for a quick stroll.
So I'm not being rude re lacking a quick reply

 

[Cian]

What DtG is asking you to do is related to hard disk. What you're enquring about is RAM. Different things.

 

[Dave the OAP]

What DtG is asking you to do is related to hard disk. What you're enquring about is RAM. Different things.

Really I didn't know that at all....blimey 20 odd years playing with mainframes and midrange, Sun kit, Intel Servers , macs and PC's and I dont know the difference between a HD and main storage...well bugger me!

I was responding to Clipped Gulls point.

Stat. When you get back do the following:

Start, right click MY COMPUTER

Click PROPERTIES

Down the bottom you should see what memory in installed on your system.

 

[Cian]

So use the quote function, then, as it appeared you were responding to the parent poster.

 

[REDLAND]

Really I didn't know that at all....blimey 20 odd years playing with mainframes and midrange, Sun kit, Intel Servers , macs and PC's and I dont know the difference between a HD and main storage...well bugger me!

I was responding to Clipped Gulls point.

Stat. When you get back do the following:

Start, right click MY COMPUTER

Click PROPERTIES

Down the bottom you should see what memory in installed on your system.

Macs are blumming brillo arn't they Dave

 

[Dave the OAP]

Macs are blumming brillo arn't they Dave

f***ing marvellous mate.

just had a national newspaper in using our Mac Suites and it went like a dream....no rebooting, no blue screens.......just ease!!!!

 

[Dave the OAP]

So use the quote function, then, as it appeared you were responding to the parent poster.

sorry... I made a horrendous blunder. i will go into the garden and eat dirt

 

[ridda]

I have some ram at home which is some of the older type SDRAM which i think your machine will be using it,s [PC133 I HAVE A 128MB STICK AND A 256MB STICK]
I can install this for you if you like?

If you need to find out the memory type on your machine go here CPUID
Download and install this program [CPUZ]and run it.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Have you tried switching it off and on again?

 

[Stat Brother]

Really I didn't know that at all....blimey 20 odd years playing with mainframes and midrange, Sun kit, Intel Servers , macs and PC's and I dont know the difference between a HD and main storage...well bugger me!

I was responding to Clipped Gulls point.

Stat. When you get back do the following:

Start, right click MY COMPUTER

Click PROPERTIES

Down the bottom you should see what memory in installed on your system.

Razi, one more read and I'll be there, thanks for trying.
Ridda, do wot.

DtG, Celeron R CPU 2.30ghz 2.29ghz 128mb of Ram.

So why did BT say I only had 127. Is that what you were saying MYOB

 

[SurreySeagulls]

Ctrl+Alt+Del

 

[Cian]

So why did BT say I only had 127. Is that what you were saying MYOB

Because their Indian call centre staff are incompetent, basically. And to make it better they don't train their UK or Ireland based staff on Norton...

If its BT's supplied Norton Internet Security, you do not have enough RAM to use your PC after you install it. They say it 'works' on 128MB but you really, really need at least 512MB for your PC to be of usable speed afterwards.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

Have you tried switching it off and on again?

PS.........
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