My computer now runs 10 times faster.

[Robbie Hatley]

WOW, was I surprised at what just happened! Not sure if this has

ANYTHING to do with my crash problem (or with Windows 2000), but

here's what happened. I was doing some more cleaning, inspecting,

and housekeeping inside my computer. I noticed my two RAM modules

were in sockets 1 and 2, while socket 0 was empty. This seemed

unkosher, so I pulled them out, cleaned the contacts, dusted-off

the sockets, and put the RAM in sockets 0 and 1 (instead of 1 and 2).



On restart, these huge boldface words flashed on my screen:



DDR DUAL CHANNEL MODE NOW ENABLED.



On launching Windows, all applications now launch about 10 times

faster than they did before! It's astounding! Apparently I was

only tapping a fraction of the effective speed of my RAM, because

it was in the wrong sockets, so the "Dual Channel Mode" was disabled.



So while I guess that my computer will continue to crash frequently,

at least it's FAST now. Not sure how I feel about that.

:-( :-/ :-???



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Cheers,

Robbie Hatley

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[Greg Russell]

"Robbie Hatley" wrote in message

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> WOW, was I surprised at what just happened! ...

> Not sure how I feel about that.



Your all-caps and exclamation mark belie your second statement.

 

[Robbie Hatley]

"Greg Russell" wrote:



> "Robbie Hatley" wrote:

>

> > WOW, was I surprised at what just happened! ...

> > Not sure how I feel about that.

>

> Your all-caps and exclamation mark belie your second statement.



Since you're posting in a Windows 2000 group, I'll assume you're

a tech guru. But this attempt of yours at clinical psychology

is an epic fail.



Firstly, the second statement you quote was not my second statement.

(To be precise, you quoted my first and fourteenth statements.)



Secondly, "WOW" does not belie "Not sure how I feel". "WOW" is

a statement of strong surprise. Surprise is fully compatible with

other simultaneous emotions, and does not make a lie out of a statement

that they exist. Indeed, a person who is strongly surprised at something

generally does experience many other emotions as well, usually including

amusement, puzzlement, and curiosity, and sometimes also annoyance,

anger, sadness, happyness, tiredness, etc. In my case, I experienced

all of those and more. I expressed that quite well non-verbally in the

fifteeth and final statement of my post. To quote:



:-( :-/ :-???



I'll translate that to English for the symbolically-impaired:



(Begin partial listing of multiple simultaneous emotions.)

:-( (sadness)

(happiness)

:-/ (wry amusment)

:-??? (puzzlement)

(End partial listing of multiple simultaneous emotions.)



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Robbie Hatley

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[Greg Russell]

In news:SNednWiTL9I9KTrWnZ2dnUVZ_j-dnZ2d@giganews.com,

Robbie Hatley typed:



> Secondly, "WOW" does not belie "Not sure how I feel". "WOW" is

> a statement of strong surprise.



You say you feel strongly surprised.

 

[Robbie Hatley]

"Greg Russell" said:



> You say you feel strongly surprised



Well, yah. I'd been using this pair of identical 500MiB

RAM modules for about 7 years now, and I'd always ASSUMED

that they were already running in "Dual Channel Mode"

but 2 days ago, I learned that this was not the case.



I was running a diagnositic program, trying to get to the

root of a "sporadic crash" problem I've been having. On

running RAM diagnositcs, I saw that the RAM sockets I'd always

thought of as being numbered "1, 2, 3" are actually numbered

"2, 1, 0" respectively. So my RAM was in sockets 1 and 2,

not sockets 0 and 1. I guessed (correctly, as it turned out)

that this was not what the MB mfg intended, so I moved my RAM

to sockets 0 and 1. That's when I started getting the

message "DDR DUAL CHANNEL MODE NOW ENABLED" at BIOS POST

every startup.



Hence my mix of conflicting emotions: on the plus side,

I have a system that now opens applications at lightning

speed but on the minus side, the hardware is obsolete and

wearing out, support for my OS is being phased out by MS,

and the system continues to crash sporadically every few

hours for no clear reason. Sigh. :-( :-/ :-???



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Robbie Hatley

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