In case you are wondering; I’m talking about computer RAM. I noticed a few days ago that one of the 512 Megabyte bars of RAM that I had installed on my computer was faulty and decided to order two 1 Gigabyte bars to replace both old bars. I had the hopes that the increase would also speed up some resource intensive applications.

Categories: Hardware

I have lately been getting the error message The instruction at “0x62e2cc0f” referenced memory at “0×00000000″. The memory could not be “written” in Microsoft Windows XP. This happened frequently when I tried to play certain avi video files. I first thought that I had a memory problem, maybe defective RAM or bad sectors on my hard drive but soon found out that this was not the case. It took me a while to realize what it was. Once I knew where the error came from I was able to wave goodbye to the memory could not be written and watch all the avi movies on my system without problems again.

Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

Many modern computers have one, two or even more gigabytes of ram that can be put to good use by creating a Ramdisk that is a virtual drive that uses part of the computers ram. The Ramdisk can be used like every other hard drive, you can copy applications and files to it and start them from there if they allow that. It is for instance possible to move portable applications like Firefox, Thunderbird or Audacity into the Ramdisk and use the advantage that those applications are actually residing in memory which speeds up loading times a lot.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

Firefox seems to need more memory when I have it open for a long time and surf to many different websites. I was never able to find out why it behaved this way and assumed that it was either a memory leak or an extension which would be responsible for this behavior.

It seems that my assumption was wrong. Firefox saves the last 50 visited websites of a single session in memory which means that it could add up quickly if you visit lots of content filled websites. The reason behind this is that it is faster to access a already visited website if it still resides in memory instead of loading it from disk cache or from the server.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Memory Manufacturer Corsair released a detail system building guide that goes into great detail and covers many aspects. The guide starts with the component selection for an high end system: Athlon 64 4200+ X2, A8N-SLI Premium motherboard, Zalman CNPS7000B-CU LED cooler, 2 GB TWINX2048-3500LLPRO memory, two eVGA GeForce 7800GTX PCI-Express video cards , Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic , Western Digital Raptor 36GB 10,000 RPM SATA Hard Drive , Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB SATA Hard Drive, Antec NeoPower 480W Modular Power Supply, NEC-3540 DVD+/-RW , Sony DVD DDU1615 and finally the Lian-Li V1000B-W Aluminum Case.

Categories: Knowledge

First of all, Merry Christmas everyone ;)

Config Inspector is a nice little freeware application for windows operating systems that could be described as an advanced task manager. Besides offering more information about loaded applications and processes it also displays vital information about memory and cpu usage, network utilization and general windows information.

Categories: Tools