hi...jim wishner in minnesota.  i'm having a problem adding RAM to my computer, wonder if anyone in the group can help.

i'm using an asus p5a motherboard with two 64-megs of sdram in two slots.  i added a 128 meg stick to the third dimm socket, and it worked fine.  booted up to 256M of memory.  i wanted to run an experiment to see what impact doubling the RAM had.  so i timed how long it took to load several programs, pulled the 128 meg out of the third  socket, and re-timed with 128 megs.  but when i put the 128 stick back in the computer wouldn't boot.  i got an error message:

"invalid VxD dynamic link to device #3 service B win config invalid.  run windows set-up program to correct."

that apparently refers to the third socket.  i tried one of the 64 meg sticks in socket three, and the same thing happened.  so i put the 128 meg in socket one, 64 megs in socket two, and it boots up to 196 megs.

any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

best regards, jim wishner

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