03-26-17 17:45 august abolins wrote to Ed Vance about New HDD for XP pc

 aa> {at}MSGID: 
 aa> Ed Vance -> Dale Shipp wrote:

 EV>> My HP a1430n XP SP3 pc has a AMD 3800+ Dual Core CPU and has been
 EV>> acting very slow when starting up or when I start a program.

 EV> I couldn't see trashing the two 500MB DDR 400 sticks and buying four 1GB
 EV> sticks to fill all the slots, so I decided 3GB should be enough on a pc
 EV> with a CPU that run at 2 Mc/s.

 EV> The XP OS is 32-Bit and I was told here that the maximum RAM it could use
 EV> was 3.8GB iirc.

 EV> Is that still true?

 aa> G'day Ed.   I still settle for XP on a couple of computers here and
 aa> have explored the ram upgrade options as you have.  XP is indeed
 aa> limited to about 3GB ram (I have seen people quoting estimates between
 aa> 3.25 and 3.8) So, there is no point going beyond the 3gb that you have
 aa> invested in.
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Howdy! again August,

I found the packages the two 1GB DDR 400 came in.

They are Kingston ValueRAM PC3200.

One of them was made in the USA the other one was made in China.

Also I may had moved the two 500MB cards to the unused slots and put
the new RAM in the slots that I took the 500MB RAM from.
Can't remember very well what I did 11 years ago.

I also found the Mobo specs. in the papers HP supplied.
It's just general specs., not like You wrote about in Your earlier post.

The Mobo is a Asus A8N-LA that HP calls Nagami-GL8E .
I will see if I can find more info in Search Results later today.

HP's specs. says the 939 Socket on the Mobo can use a AMD Athlon 64 X2
up to 4800+ .

I don't care to replace the 3800+ CPU with a 4800+ , but if the CPU ever
fails if I can find a 4800+ I would get one for it.

Thanks for Your comments.


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