bigggg

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Hello dear forum's members ,

it's my first requst in this great forum , and I hope to see the best here


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I have a dell notebook (inspiron 6400)

and it was with 512MB of ram (256MB x2)

but I'm an online player , so I need more than that .

I upgraed it to 2GB (1GB x2)

but after that , CPU usage jumped to 40 ~ 60% !!!!



I don't know why , but I can't open any game now

and when I put the 256MG , it turns to normal CPU usage (1 ~ 3%)

but I paid about $80 for nothing

please if you know how to fix this problem , help me

some info about my PC :

1.86 MGz dual core

2GB of ram

80GB of hard disk

and the new ram is : ddr2 1GB 667MHz

thank you

belfasteddie

The obvious question is : Are the sticks a matched pair. have you tried swapping them around.(if you have already tried these then please accept my apologies).
When you boot try going into the Bios and see what Ram is showing.

bigggg

i tried to use another kind of 1 GB

but the problem still happens

the sticks work well , and thay're matched

but i wanna know if there is a relationship between the RAM amount and CPU usage ...

coz that only happen when the system memory is high

but when i use 1GB (which is 2 x 512MB) the CPU works better

so , my problem doesn't allow me to use high system memory

i hope that explains my problem

BTW , i checked my BIOS and everything is going well .

and i really thank you for your help , belfasteddie

but please try to end this , i still need your advice :)

that's it .........

bigggg

where are you guys ?????????

dai

does the bios recognise the 2g has been installed

bigggg

yeah dai , it does

now , i'm using the 2 x 512 MB (which equals 1 GB)

and it stops freezing , i think my motherboard can't match with high amount of RAM

coz it's so old , but i think it's ok now :)

thank you everybody , i love you all :)

dai

have you checked to see if there is a bios update available in reference to ram