by JoesCat » Nov 19th, '20, 06:24
@Zeeman - if you do not have that much RAM, you may want to consider loading Mageia Classic install which uses 32bit code.
32bit code is a bit more compact than 64bit, therefore using less code for executable programs and more space for data. Many users won't see a difference or impact between 32bit or 64bit code, so this may be to your benefit.
@laidman, if you are wiggling the onboard RAM, you may as well remove them, and rub a pencil eraser across the contact fingers to clean-off grit, dirt, greases. Some people put their fingers on the contacts, which is bad in adding whatever is on your hands to the contacts (making them dirty or oxidized). Some people also have their towers sit on the floor, and it can be expected you have a load of dust inside the case (this happens in work environments, and homes too when people kick-up dirt from the floor and it gets sucked in through the vents.
If this is the case (dust, dirt), you can unplug the PC, open the case, grab the bare metal with one hand (to ground yourself from creating static), and with the other hand, run a vacuum around to suck-out, or blow-out dust and dirt inside the computer. When I say grab bare metal, I mean the same PC you are cleaning, so you are like a bird on a wire, at the same voltage potential as the PC itself - I've seen people grab other metal, and that is wrong - saying this one more time - make sure the PC is unplugged.
If it is an old PC, you may be dealing with "cold solder joints", this happens with hot/cold/hot/cold/hot/cold as you turn on and turn-off a PC over the years....it is metal fatigue due to expansion and contraction - you might have discovered a location when you wiggled the RAM....but then again, it could have been a dirty connection.
The what-ifs increase with time, and older equipment.