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Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks.

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:47:27 -0400, micky
<NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. 

Shucks, I'm sorry.  I left out the main difficulty.   I want to use 3 of
the 2 gig sticks, so the last one won't be paired. 


(I finally got a hit in google that reminded me what the problem is. It
recommended 2 one-gig sticks to get to 6, but I don't want to spend
money when (someday soon, maybe, someday) I'm going to buy another
computer.   So I just want to use what I have. 

I'm assuming I'll find one stick that is bad. 


>Like my Dell core2 duo optiplex 775 (or 755??,. I forget, but this is a
>generatl quetion. ) 

So far, I replaced the thermal paste and reassembled and the CPU temp is
only 139^.    Plus the paste people say the temp will go down 4 or 5
degrees as it burns in for the first 200 hours.   I'm not doing much
with the computer so I supppose it will get hotter when I run a lot of
things, but all in all, it seems okay. 

So then I used one stick of 2Gigs and it crashed, while I was looking at
speccy and speccy said it was 134^, so it can hardly have crashed
because of the heat or the thermal paste, right. 

I changed sticks and it's okay for now, but it's gone 24 hours before it
crashes, so who knows. 

I was able to add another user (one who doesn't need a pin) and trying
to do that made it crash 2 or 3 times berfore, so that's a good sign. 

Two more sticks to go and I hope to have 2 or 3 good sticks, totallying
4 or 5 gigs.   That's enough for a secondary computer that only does a
few things.   Unless it's not the RAM eiither.  ;-(   

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Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-09-18 18:47 -0400
  Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-09-18 19:06 -0400
    Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-09-18 21:10 -0400
    Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. "wasbit" <wasbitremove@hotmail.com> - 2020-09-19 09:56 +0100
      Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-09-20 21:03 -0400
  Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-09-26 18:50 -0400
    Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-09-27 12:19 -0400

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