I have to believe that RAM for a computer that old is a dime a dozen on 
ebay. Well, maybe a little more, but not much.

FWIW, I have a Pavilion 8380 that I updated to 192 mb ram, but I don't think 
you need any extra memory for a DVD player. In fact, I am a little surprised 
that it didn't come with one.

What does the DVD player's manual say about hardware requirements? Assuming 
you have updated to XP, that chews up a lot of system resources, but if 
you're not running anything else, I would think you wouldn't have too much 
problem.

William Closure


----Original Message Follows----


Date:    Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:25:12 -0400
From:    Monique <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RAM needed to run DVD drive

My son's computer is a HP Pavillion 8360 and has the base 64 mb of RAM...=
  We added a dvd drive but need to know what amount of additional RAM is n=
eeded to play DVD's from the new drive. The motherboard can only handle 2=
56, so that's
what I'm shooting for, but to buy 2/128's @ 66 mhz ram seems to be the sa=
me cost as buying a 1gb stick for mine.. For now the minimum needed is wh=
at I'm looking for, unless of course, someone out there has the RAM I nee=
d for less than 30$ each.. Any opinions will be appreciated.

Thanks
Monique

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