Hi
I'm fairly new to this forum, and hoping someone would be able to advise me with some troubleshooting tips on how to understand my computer memory running a Windows 2000 Professional Operating system.
I've had 128MB memory for awhile and I recently upgraded it to 384MB. I added two additional 128MB PNY memory to my machine.
The system recognizes the memory, but I feel it has made no difference whatsoever, the hard disk is still chaggin away and the system seems to shut down at times and reboot.
I checked the event viewer and didn't find any particular system errors etc.
Moreover, I changed my page file to 256MB but still I see no difference of any sort.
I'm quite confused if my memory is even being utilized or not as well as what is casuing the computer to crash randomly and reboot.
I am not using any particular heavy usage applications just basic browsing, office stuff and running some mpeg clips at times. However, the crash don't particularly happen when running the mpeg clips as one would think and i still can't figure out the deal with the memory.
If someone could advise or point me to where I need to go to manually allocate memory usage etc that woudl be great or what is up.
As for the OS, yes I did upgrade at one point from NT workstation, which was very robust and I had no complaints. However, after my upgrade i have done a clean format and reinstalled my os from scratch so I don't know what could possibly be causing the crash problem.
I've attemped to provide all info so hopefully I 'm not asking question other users have already asked in the forum.
Hope this helps.
Thanks in advance
I'm fairly new to this forum, and hoping someone would be able to advise me with some troubleshooting tips on how to understand my computer memory running a Windows 2000 Professional Operating system.
I've had 128MB memory for awhile and I recently upgraded it to 384MB. I added two additional 128MB PNY memory to my machine.
The system recognizes the memory, but I feel it has made no difference whatsoever, the hard disk is still chaggin away and the system seems to shut down at times and reboot.
I checked the event viewer and didn't find any particular system errors etc.
Moreover, I changed my page file to 256MB but still I see no difference of any sort.
I'm quite confused if my memory is even being utilized or not as well as what is casuing the computer to crash randomly and reboot.
I am not using any particular heavy usage applications just basic browsing, office stuff and running some mpeg clips at times. However, the crash don't particularly happen when running the mpeg clips as one would think and i still can't figure out the deal with the memory.
If someone could advise or point me to where I need to go to manually allocate memory usage etc that woudl be great or what is up.
As for the OS, yes I did upgrade at one point from NT workstation, which was very robust and I had no complaints. However, after my upgrade i have done a clean format and reinstalled my os from scratch so I don't know what could possibly be causing the crash problem.
I've attemped to provide all info so hopefully I 'm not asking question other users have already asked in the forum.
Hope this helps.
Thanks in advance