Memory Utilization

Hi,

I just upgraded the memory in my Thinkpad T43 from 1/2 gig to 2 gigs,
running Pentium M 1.866ghz, and XP Pro 2002 SP2. After the upgrade, I did
not see any increase in performance of the laptop. I get no errors. The
memory is two 1gig sticks. There is no error at boot up. Computer
properties and BIOS shows the memory was accepted by OS.

Am I missing any other setting or adjustment?

Thanks!

Tammie

"GW" wrote in message
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>
> I just upgraded the memory in my Thinkpad T43 from 1/2 gig to 2
> gigs,
> running Pentium M 1.866ghz, and XP Pro 2002 SP2. After the upgrade,
> I did
> not see any increase in performance of the laptop. I get no errors.
> The
> memory is two 1gig sticks. There is no error at boot up. Computer
> properties and BIOS shows the memory was accepted by OS.
>
> Am I missing any other setting or adjustment?


And if your half-gig of memory was not being totally consumed which
forced applications to use the slow pagefile on the hard disk, why
would adding more UNUSED memory add any speed?

More memory doesn't speed up any computer unless lack of sufficient
memory was the bottleneck.

For most applications 512MB of memory is more than enough,
1 or 2 gigs helps for very large graphics file editing and other specialized
applications.

JS

"GW" <GW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded the memory in my Thinkpad T43 from 1/2 gig to 2 gigs,
> running Pentium M 1.866ghz, and XP Pro 2002 SP2. After the upgrade, I did
> not see any increase in performance of the laptop. I get no errors. The
> memory is two 1gig sticks. There is no error at boot up. Computer
> properties and BIOS shows the memory was accepted by OS.
>
> Am I missing any other setting or adjustment?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tammie

Tammie

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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GW wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded the memory in my Thinkpad T43 from 1/2 gig to 2 gigs,
> running Pentium M 1.866ghz, and XP Pro 2002 SP2. After the upgrade,
> I did not see any increase in performance of the laptop. I get no
> errors. The memory is two 1gig sticks. There is no error at boot
> up. Computer properties and BIOS shows the memory was accepted by OS.
>
> Am I missing any other setting or adjustment?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tammie

> Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete

Try Ctrl+Shift+Esc. One click faster. LOL


> to select Task Manager and click the Performance
> Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

Do this after you do your normal work on the computer. In other words,
exercise the system for a while then check the numbers Gerry mentioned.
Start all the apps you normally run and open some typical docs and whatever
else.

-JohnO

If you weren't hitting the swap file because of memory constraints you
wasted the money buying memory. That's sort of like buying really wide
tires for your car thinking that it will make it go faster, when it is
already going as fast as the 150 horsepower engine can pull it.

GW wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded the memory in my Thinkpad T43 from 1/2 gig to 2 gigs,
> running Pentium M 1.866ghz, and XP Pro 2002 SP2. After the upgrade, I did
> not see any increase in performance of the laptop. I get no errors. The
> memory is two 1gig sticks. There is no error at boot up. Computer
> properties and BIOS shows the memory was accepted by OS.
>
> Am I missing any other setting or adjustment?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tammie