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Looks cheap so get 3-2gb sticks and toss the little 1gb stick away
You'd then have 8gbs of ram.
Personally I'd get 4x2gb sticks and toss what ever you have away.
You should remove the 1gb stick and redo the scanner just to make sure the scanner is only reading the single 2gb stick.
New disk fitted and 8GB RAM added so 11GB RAM total. The crucial scanner was wrong
Thanks for the help
Thanks for the thread April;
I know its a bit dated now , but so am I and so is my PC! I have the same model as you, I'm having problems with a noisy fan; the problem lies with the fan itself, so an upgrade to a better PSU is about to happen. I added new memory to the board when I first got mine but only went as far as raising it to 3gb. I was told at the time that was the limit for the system. Seems that may have been the wrong info.
@neilwheel. There was already 3GB of RAM in mine. I have upped to 11GB and am going to up to 16GB which is the limit. I had a problem from time to time with what sounds like the fan as well. Sometimes it is still a bit loud at night but not as loud as it was then. I sometimes wonder if that funnel around the fan is loose. will have look when installing the extra RAM
How wlll upgrading the PSU help the fan noise?. Make sure you check PSU is suitable
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If you have a 32 bit version of Windows, which it says you do in your system specs, you are limited to 4 GB of RAM. The system will allow you to use about 3.3 GB, and reserve the rest of the 4 GB for its own use. No way you can get around it, it's a limitation of the operating system.
Buying more RAM for your system would be a waste, if you were considering it. You would need a 64 bit version of Windows to take advantage of more RAM.
And as April mentioned, how does a new PSU help a noisy fan? Is the noisy fan you have now in the PSU?
Hi April, Mellon,
My box came from the shop with 2gb RAM.
I added an extra 1gb with a Kingston memory PCi stick. I found out later that 64bit could boost the amount of usable memory but at the time wanted to play safe with 32bit because I was running 32 bit programs. Not an issue now 7 years on. The PSU has got a big fan on its underside. The PSU is a cheapo generic job; I'm going to fit a Crucial with higher wattage. The current fan runs very loud; I can quiet it down by brushing lightly on the vanes with a soft artists brush but I don't want to be doing this every time I boot up. The CPU fan is OK. I thought it was the culprit originally but its not. I removed the clip-on cover and ran the system without it and no change. So I clipped it back on. I think it's there to prevent any crap that gets blown out by the PSU and GPU or gathered on the case floor getting sucked up into the fan housing.
I've had two hard disks fail since i got the Medion. The first was replaced with a Seagate unit under warranty but that failed a couple of weeks ago and I replaced that with an Hitachi. I would like to add an SSD to handle the boot sequence and leave all the storage to the HDD. I know I'd probably be better putting the money towards a new system, but it serves my needs when everything is working so a few tweeks will keep it in service for a few more years. I wish now I'd bought the dedicated backup/storage drive at the time as they're no longer available. They're a very neat solution. I make do with a 1tb Seagate backup drive that plugs in via USB. It's a bit slow, but does the job.
I did not know they came with 2GB RAM. My disk is Western Digital, it did not fail and I have it since 2010. I added another the subject of this thread.
There is a good program Hard Disk Sentinel that tracks disks and warns if there is a problem.
I did not realise the PSU had a fan too. Maybe that was the noise I heard. There is also a fan on the GPU, the white one between the PSU and the CPU. If, by "dedicated backup/storage drive" you mean the HardDrive2Go that sits on top of the case outside, I have one very handy. But you can get external hard drive of 1TB quite cheap now in Argos or Tesco. I have Canvio Basics - Toshiba