That's why I always hated Compaq. Dell doesn't use screws.
I have 1G of Mem and it scores 267, it increases your score calculation, but little of that memory is actually used. The only setting you can control that will let you increase your points per hour is the Storage setting (other than upgrading). Go to your device profile and increase the disk size to 10 Gigs max (if you can).
BTW what brand name was that defective 1G of memory?

Thanks retsof,
As you may have read 'elsewhere' I am thinking of building my first website. I'm a little short on theme ideas and wondered if anyone would object if I initially based it on the Vulture Team here. Kinda proud to be a member and we could all benefit - me especially if I can get my head round the ins and outs.

My crunching profiles are all set to 10Gb storage.

Continuing to exchange parts with Fry's, and probably more to go.
New memory replacement shows the same symptoms....partially boots and starts over.

They don't give me a hassle about bringing things back, but they don't know what their own computers they sell seem to take.

Could it be that they gave me the wrong memory?
It's DDR 1Gb, 400MHz speed. HOWEVER, the bus on the motherboard is 200MHz. That's an ASUS Salmon 1.04. CPU is AMD64 3400+

Could I possibly need DDR 1Gb 200MHz? The board is rated for up to 2Gb, which is only 2 1Gb sticks in 2 locations. We'd like to get 1Gb and the original 512Mb working. I tried flipping them to the opposite places, but it didn't make any difference.

When that was removed, the original 512Mb works fine. A 128Mb Nvidia graphics card is now taking the graphics load, and the computer is crunching faster.

The green things are a "screwless" component mounting system, but they won't work unless there are screws in the floppy drive, and it's not obvious which hole the screw goes in. It grabs the head of the screw "sort of". Adequate, but not great. The one it likes leave the floppy recessed about an inch...the same way a 3 1/2" hard drive would be mounted.

The salesman said we'd need a 5 1/2" rail....but NO. It's a narrow drawer and the recessed floppy goes on one side, and the outer supports for the 3 1/2" cage are in there, and naturally are tacky.

It may come out, and we go with a USB external floppy drive, and put the blank cover back.

Rets

The board probably doesn't like the two different ram sticks.
Are they the same brand etc?
Have you checked the ram timings in the bios.

Lower HTT.........Memtest.all the usual stuff

Thanks retsof - Not so much running out, but being cautious about personal subjects. Don't want to reveal everything after all.

If you, or any other members, have any artwork (jpg, gif)etc you fancy seeing on it, you can drop them to my Hotmail. Some of your Vulture sigs have been