Okay.
I'm throwing this out here because I figure someone may know.....this is a web forum, so there have to be a few computer-savvy folks out there!

My home p.c. is an old (2000) Compaq Presario 5000, which uses Windows XP OS. It currently has 512 MB of RAM (PC133) and a 700 mHz processor. It runs pretty slow sometimes, especially starting up and loading websites and downloading stuff.

We had one guy tell us we needed to get an upgrade of the graphics card. Another guy told us no way. A graphics card won't help at all and we should add more RAM. He gave us a site (www.crucial.com) which would tell us what our "maximum" memory would be. According to that site, we can put a max of 768 MB RAM in it.

My question is...Why is there a maximum?? We could put 3 256 MB RAM cards in, but why not stick a few 512's in? How come there is a maximum and what happens if you exceed it??

Thanks to all !