Re: about the latest ubuntu

["John Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>]

Yeah, like I said, it probably wouldn't hurt to take the old stick out and 
take it with you when you buy more RAM.  It's a good thing to make people 
aware of the possibility that they could run into that problem. But it is 
also a good thing to make sure they know it's not likely to be a problem.

If you don't have the manual for the motherboard or if it is in print like 
some of mine, then I would just risk it.  Ask around, I'll bet you can find 
someone to *give* you RAM for  a 1 Ghz machine. You can probably find 
someone to give you the whole machine so they don't have to pay the 
recycling fee.

We have piles of memory sticks around here from old machines. I mentioned 
that I was stripping the useful parts out of a computer yesterday. I didn't 
even bother to remove the RAM. I took out the NIC and the CD burner. The 
rest, case, 20 Mb HD, 384 Mb RAM, video card, etc will probably end up in a 
landfill in China.

[My wife used to write for PC World Magazine and she did a story once how 
these computer recycling things are a scam. You pay them $20 -  $40  to take 
your computer off your hands and they don't do anything with it but dump it 
into a landfill.]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Creapeau" <creapeaa@msoe.edu>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:54 PM
Subject: RE: about the latest ubuntu


>I was just taking on some precaution here. Since he was talking about an 
>old
> machine there's a possibility that he could run into this problem.
>
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> On Behalf Of John Heim
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu
>
> I haven't seen a machine that required matching memory sticks in years. I
> have  mixed and matched them in many different machines over the past
> several years.  I can't say there doesn't still exist machines that 
> require
> matching sticks. But I don't think that is common. In fact, right before I
> sat down to read my email, I took apart a Dell 4100 and it had a 256 Mb
> stick and a 128 Mb stick and it recognized both for what they were. We're
> sending this old beast off to be junked and it's a 1 Ghz machine. That is
> why I think you can get RAM for a machine like that for next to nothing.
> Nobody wants old machines like that any more and you could easily salvage
> the RAM.
>
> But if anyone takes my advice about upgrading RAM by going to a used
> computer store, it probably wouldn't hurt to pull the existing stick out 
> and
> take it with you.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <talmage@somtel.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:16 AM
> Subject: RE: about the latest ubuntu
>
>
>> That's not necessarily true.
>> It's system dependent.
>> Factors include Bios and motherboard.
>> To find out what, and how to add memory, the best source is your
>> computer, or motherboard's, manual.
>>
>> At 10:25 AM 4/4/2007, you wrote:
>>>If your going to upgrade memory sticks you need to make sure they're all
>>>the
>>>same value, (IE. 256 = 2 128 modules or 1 256 module), if you mix
>>>different
>>>size modules you'll end up with the higher sized memory running at the
>>>lowest size in your machine. So, if your running a 256 module and add a
>>>128
>>>module you'll still only be running 256 total instead of 384mb. HTH
>>
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