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fayanora got some RAM for her birthday. It arrived yesterday so I headed over today (Tues) to install it.

Her Dell was painfully slow and lots of things wouldn't run right. As I'd been telling her, running Windows XP with only 256 meg of RAM was probably why.

Well, when I got there, we opened it up to install the 1 gig DIMM. The 256 meg DIMM in the socket turned out to be the same speed (333 MHz), so I moved it to the second slot. That meant she's got 1.25 gig of RAM now.

When we hooked things back up I went into setup. It said the RAM was 266 MHZ. Annoying. I let the system boot, shut it down and tried again with just the new RAM. Same result. *sigh*

So it was back in with the old RAM.

There was a bit of a worry when the screen came up weird, but shutting down, reseating the RAM and starting up again fixed that.

Now the system runs *much* faster and several programs that wouldn't run before run fine.

Afterwards, since we'd gotten Fay's account on geocaching.com straightened out we did a check for caches close to her place. There were a couple (one of which we'd made a half-hearted search for once and which is likely MIA) and another a bit farther away. So we headed for that second one since it was more or less on the way back to my place.

GC1PVKW Overlooking Rose City
So called because it overlooks the Rose City Golf Course.
If anyone reading this tries for it, be warned that the cache co-ordinates are off by a good 40 feet. It's at the top of the slop, not way down it.

Teeny *tiny* container. Truly a nano-cache.

Fay actually spotted it when I knelt down to try taking pictures of a neat flower. The cache is only visible from some angles.

There's another cache a dozen or so blocks away, but neither of us wanted to try for it. Maybe after we get our bikes fixed.