What the Heck?

Question:

So many questions - so little space. Basically, my (antiquated) PC is running slow tonight (to put it mildly), again. I tried to load this thing up today with memory, I have four slots, but no matter what I did, it seems I can only get 512MG (2 slots of 256) of RAM loaded into this thing - that is, AND get the monitor to work. When I tried to put in more - my monitor would not come on, well, wouldn't STAY on. Also, I tried to "see" the memory registering in my PC, went to a site called "BelArc (advisor - .com)", and it tells me I have 2 sticks of 128 - when I clearly know I have 2 sticks of 256 (what-up wit dat??). Where can I go within my PC (Windows 2000) to see EXACTLY how much RAM it is recognizing? Oh, and last but not least - I need to purge this old thing of some programs - what are these and are they needed: "Paradox Runtime", "Arcsoft Software", "DiscWizard for Windows", "QuickView Plus" - and 310 MG of "WordPerfect Office 12", oh and is Adobe Acrobat/Reader needed? THX!

Answer:
Possible reasons:
1. You do not have comparable RAM, probably have different speed or are from different manufacturer.
2. One of your RAM slots is damaged.
3. Two of your RAM chips are malfunctioning...

Solution:
1. Test your RAM one at a time to make sure all of them are working properly (You'll have to install each and boot your computer to see if it accepted that).
2. Try one working chip in all the slots to ensure your slots are OK.
3. Make different combinations of all four chips (two at a time).

You seem desperate because of slow speed. But freeing up hard disk space does not always be helpful, you better defrag your disk partitions to speed things up once RAM issue is sorted out. Good luck.

You can check the task manager for your RAM recognition, or just open up your BIOS. As for those programs, they all seem safe to uninstall except for Acrobat/Reader as that's kind of essential but optional for viewing PDFs and whatnot.

try going into the bios it normaly will say how much ram is on the computer when the coputer starts up it allso show go through a memory test and say home much is reading and if you just installed new ram you must go into the bios then save settings and exit for it to take effect, to access the bios if you dont already know you press either F2,F1, del,delete key just after the memory test before it trys to load windos up if none of them keys work just trye perssing any one of the F keys untill you can get into it normaly it it will tell you the key to press to enter the setup/bios, hope this can help

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