[pchelpers] interesting,

I've always said that upgrades are not infinite and you can only upgrade to a 
point. here is a letter from reader's letters in a magazine called 
Computeractive..
Billy


 
Here's a tip for readers: I upgraded my motherboard, memory and processor to an 
Athlon XP 11700. I bought two 512Kb memory modules and was very pleased when 
the whole machine fired up perfectly first time. Very soon though, I started 
getting conflicts, program errors and all sorts. I changed every setting in the 
BIOS and spent many hours checking connections and reloading Windows 98SE.

After four months of this, I was prepared to get rid of the motherboard and buy 
an expensive, tried and tested one. I mentioned this to a colleague who said I 
had overloaded the motherboard. He advised me to remove the second memory 
module. I did this and the machine has been running sweetly ever since.

Andrew Hedges via e mail


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