Before I post the video, let me tell you all what is going on. My health first. I am very tired only wanting to lay in bed, sleeping or just laying there. At first I thought it was a depression thing, but when my blood work showed I was again anemic that may explain some. All I want to do when up is watch videos and I struggle to read news or do other tasks, feeling like every movement is too much and just wanting to sit here un moving. The second issue I have is I recently expanded the memory of my oldest computer, a built I like better because it is expandable. Pride go before the fall. I felt I understood the motherboard well enough and the system architecture to simple look for and buy the cheapest priced ram the system could handle.
I am humbled to admit I got my butt handed to me as after installing the cheapest four sticks equaling 64 GB of ram which is the max the system can handle I dumped and started the computer. Yes it seems all four sticks and ran at the higher speed. Grand. But then as I loaded Windows and other programs … problems happened. I got almost everything done and then had sudden BOD … the blue screen of death that I have not seen in my own systems ever. I diligently tracked every error, researched every error code and security event. What I got made me realize I had not done enough work understanding my system and the unbuffered ram.
I could make this a post on the system and what I learned. Going cheapest for me is going to cost me. I need to go back to a two stick mode with buffered memory. The reason is that the CPU can see the dual channel two stick configuration as one big stick. With four it has to run through the memory controller system to read each stick as a separate entity and compare try to manage the flow and errors of each. When the errors become too great or do an act that the system deems threatening, it shuts everything down. So I am going to spend more money on a new set of buffered 2 stick memory which should solve this issue and I can get back to being online with everyone and not spending weeks of every online time searching for and reading tech pages and specs reports. Now to the video. Love and hugs to all. Hugs
Scottie's Playtime 
I am so sorry this all is happening! Holy cow. You take care, and balance all these things for yourself so you don’t hurt yourself. I was driving on an errand this morning, thinking about your computers with all the stuff, and thinking how I bought a new Chromebook and am just swimming along, but maybe I should look at more, like the kid has, and you have.
I like my new Chromebook. It’s got the full-sized keyboard I like and am used to, plenty of gig to spare for what I do, and no stress. I know Google is evil, but so is everyone else, so. I have a shorter rather than longer lifespan ahead of me, and the Chromebook works for me. The kid is shopping this week to update/replace everything he’s got before tariffs kick in. He’s looking forward to a new full-time job, hoping to work at home, so he wants a machine on which he can do that, and also play what he likes, as well as the weekly D&D with the guys. He thought he had one yesterday, but read both the reviews, and because of the negative one, decided not to buy it. The positive one was very short and sweet, the negative one happened to cover everything the kid wondered about the system, and most of it was negative.
I like my Chromebook! And I’m glad I don’t have to think about working a new job at home on a computer.
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