You have a good point.

However I have used Operating Systems that
would never work with this type of memory no
matter how good the quality.

That said, it become apparent that the OS and the
Hardware are joined at the hip. Should any piece
of hardware fail and the OS may have a problem
carrying out its tasks. Should any part of the OS
get mucked up and the hardware may not function as intended.

If you go back a few years when Windows 98
was king of the hill, increasing the amount of memory
from 32MB to 64MB made a big difference in how
fast the OS and applications performed. For Win 98
128MB was the sweet spot.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com



"Mr. Smith" wrote in message
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On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:07:48 +1000, "Touch Base"
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"Mr. Smith" wrote in message
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On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:04:10 -0500, "L.S." wrote:


winxp(home).

One of my 512 memory stick went out. System only recognizes 512 instead
of
1gb. To check I took it out and tried it in another system- no go.
Here's the question and I know it's probably not correct newsgroup but
should be simple answer for you sys gurus.
The sticks are ddr333, 512meg, 184 pin. I have a extra ddr400, 1gb, 184
pin
stick.
The instruction for the MB says up to 4 gig and ddr333.

Will the ddr400 work w/o messing up system?


Why ask here? Your question has nothing to do with with OS (you did
notice the letters X and P preceeding the word Hardware in the group
title, right?)

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Dear Mr Smith,

What part of XP is hardware?

Please enlighten me as to what kind of posts should be in this newsgroup?

Perhaps posts that deal with the interaction of the XP OS and the
hardware? Like driver conflicts, or questions about how to use the
hardware with the OS?

This situation is OS independent. Nobody can deny that.