PC100 RAM the root of evil?

From: Christopher Southworth (taskrandom_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:59:13 -0500

Hi, folks!

I am an avid videogamer, and I would love to be able to play games on my
Windows XP Pro system, as I have loads of them. I troubleshoot and
troubleshoot, and it never seems to help me -- is hardware the cause of my
problems? I have a Pentium 4 2.3GHz motherboard, 512MB of PC100 SDRAM, a
Radeon 7000 PCI 64MB video card and a big enough hard drive to make
everything fit (ie - space is not a consideration - even small, old games
won't work). My problem is this - each game I play abruptly stops, and
either has intense graphic confusion necessitating a reboot, or the game
simply exits to the desktop. Should I replace my RAM? Is my video card too
old? If so, why don't my very old (ie- 1998 and prior) games work? Even
"X-COM: UFO Defense" cuts out on me!!!

Please help!
Chris S.

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