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Sat 28 Aug, 2004 09:55 am
So I'm trying to install my new HP photosmart 7700 printer, and it said while it meets the minium requirements, a few of the components will not work because I lack the RAM.
I removed my DVD player, microsoft, money, MSN messenger, and several music files I just used to "get in the mood" anyway ...but does creating more disk space help the RAM (memory) at all?
Is there anything I can do to help in any way?
We are getting a new computer next year (prob. around christmas 05), so I don't mean purchasing help by purchasing more RAM or anything but I'd like to be able to organize my wedding pictures and post them on my homepage w/o it crashing when May (the date) comes around. I'll do my best to not add more stuff to my computer (that I purchased in 1999).
I do things like run Adaware, scan disk, and frag. regularly.
256 RAM strip costs $50. Maybe you could add one...I did.My HP is 5 years old.
Are they hard to install?
Why is this a good purchase? Meaning, how does it help me?
Obviously a 101 question for someone who doesn't know computers.
I added ram in my prior computer with no difficulty other than unplugging and replugging every little wire. It kind of depends on how accessable the manufacturer made the box. Instructions should be with the computer handbook, including how to ground the computer.
Unless you have something running that competes for ram, cleaning up the disk isn't going to make much, if any difference.
Are you sure, by the way, that the message indicated a lack of computer memory? I would hate to see you upgrade, only to find out that the printer needed more ram.
You just wait, Joahaeyo. Monger, or somebody else with a lot of smarts will tell you all about it.
Quote: removed my DVD player, microsoft, money, MSN messenger, and several music files I just used to "get in the mood" anyway ...but does creating more disk space help the RAM (memory) at all?
No it will not help.
Perhaps increasing the virtual memory might help a little bit but the problem will not be fixed.
Quote:Are they hard to install?
No just be sure to plug them. If they were not installed in the right way, your computer won't boot and you'll hear a permanent voice like this: tout tout tout tout...
how much of RAM do you have right now?
this is great input! thanks.
Current Ram: 64 - something?
Yes, I'm sure that is what the warning said when I uploaded my printer. It however runs fine (to my knowledge). I just will be adding an entire album of wedding pics and doing a lot of homepage work in the coming months.
If u wanna use your printer with the 64 MB, you should restart your PC to free RAM and then you shouldn't open any application while using the printer. It may works just fine.
joajeayo
yep, 64 mb is pretty low nowadays...512 is probably average
ram is the memory that your computer uses to run things, the hard drive is the memory that it uses to store things...so it doesn't really matter how much is on your hard drive as long as your hard drive isn't filled to the BRIM
If you have xp you can make virtual memory (make a part of your hard drive work as RAM) I don't know if you can do that with other operating systems.
JoeFX wrote:If you have xp you can make virtual memory (make a part of your hard drive work as RAM) I don't know if you can do that with other operating systems.
This is the defualt in OS X and Linux.
Virtual memory is also enabled by default with every version of Windows, & just about every other operating system out there.
I don't have XP.
Quote:yep, 64 mb is pretty low nowadays...512 is probably average
ram is the memory that your computer uses to run things, the hard drive is the memory that it uses to store things...so it doesn't really matter how much is on your hard drive as long as your hard drive isn't filled to the BRIM
Wow. I didn't know that. I remember when I got my computer, 64mb was considered excellent.
Guess I should tell my parents that it's time to get rid of their TANDY computer.
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