Memory runs low very often, and most of the time only with minimum or "light" activities. Would like to quote a few examples : (1)Playing MP3 w/ Winamp while opening MS Words (2) Playing a classic simulation games "Theme Hospital" , alone.
Brief description of my desktop system as follow:
ASUS P3V133 MotherBoard
PIII 850Mhz
512MB SDRAM
40GB ATA HDD
ATI 128MB AGP Graphic Card
Creative SB Live! Value Sound Card
D-Link Network Card
Windows XP SP2
AVG Antivirus
Questions:
1) Phys Memory Available at 50% after reboot? Is this normal?
2) After closing some program or doc files, phys memory does not recover, and is this normal as well?
3) Just d/l "FreeRAM XP Pro", any idea will this help?
4) Any software or method to verify my SDRAM? Not sure if they are the culprits?
5) HDD will require longer read/write times when the memory is low ?
Pls advise b4 I try to work out any upgrade.
TQ.