Mr. RAM, your seat is ready
2021-Nov-17, Wednesday 08:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
We recently swapped things around to prepare for the office becoming Laila's room, and as part of that we took ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee's television and Playstation and my computer and moved them to the sun nook. My computer is five years old now and has always been temperamental, so as a precaution, after I got it set up in its new location I did a MemTest, found a bad block, and used my normal cure--took the RAM out and put it back in again. Everything booted up, problem solved, right?
Well, no. Things ran slowly. There were weird hitches. FFXIV had frequent microstuttering. The fans were whirring all the time. I was worried that my computer was finally dying, except that when I opened the task manager to figure out how hard it was working, I noticed that 15.9 gigs out of 16 gigs of RAM were being used.
Wait a minute. 16 gigs?
I looked through the clear panel and, sure enough, only two of the four dimms were lighting up. I shut my computer down, unseated those dimms and reseated them, and then powered the computer back on and booted to BIOS. It registered all four, I went into Windows, and hey, everything ran much smoother! Imagine that!
My computer's RAM--ever finding more and different ways to cause problems.
sashagee's television and Playstation and my computer and moved them to the sun nook. My computer is five years old now and has always been temperamental, so as a precaution, after I got it set up in its new location I did a MemTest, found a bad block, and used my normal cure--took the RAM out and put it back in again. Everything booted up, problem solved, right?Well, no. Things ran slowly. There were weird hitches. FFXIV had frequent microstuttering. The fans were whirring all the time. I was worried that my computer was finally dying, except that when I opened the task manager to figure out how hard it was working, I noticed that 15.9 gigs out of 16 gigs of RAM were being used.
Wait a minute. 16 gigs?
I looked through the clear panel and, sure enough, only two of the four dimms were lighting up. I shut my computer down, unseated those dimms and reseated them, and then powered the computer back on and booted to BIOS. It registered all four, I went into Windows, and hey, everything ran much smoother! Imagine that!
My computer's RAM--ever finding more and different ways to cause problems.
