The RAM and XP question

[frogbeastegg]

Reverting to my original 2GB of corsair RAM has the PC up and running again.

The old RAM has never been used. It came as part of my barebones bundle and I was recommended to remove it because my purchased RAM is faster. It's been sat in the plastic package that my corsair stuff came in for 3 1/2 years in dry, room temp conditions. It should be ok. I know it used to work because I powered up the barebones when it arrived to check it worked before I started fiddling with it.

I don't know. I've pulled the PC to bits repeatedly today and it's failed to work each time the extra 1GB is in there. At this point it might be better to give up and go the windows 7 plus 4GB of RAM to bring me to a total of 6GB. :considers cost of window 7: Or give up playing civ 5!


EDIT: Bah! Considering the barriers I'm running into and the gains I'll get across the board, I have decided that I'll go with the windows 7 plus 4GB extra RAM option. This XP install is getting doddery anyway, and if I'm going to do a reinstall I may as well do one which is more future proof instead of one which will repeat the same issues. I'll do a dual boot so anything which doesn't work with 7 can go on XP. If I order now I'll have everything for Tuesday.