Problem with Win7 on older system

[Max-Powers]

I installed Windows 7 on an old system. MSI K8N Neo4 Plat SLI / A64 4000 / Gforce 6600 / 1 Gig DDR 400. It crashed constantly. It was a fresh install and I did all the updates. I was thinking that I don't have enough memory, and am thinking about upgrading to 2gig. Have you looked at the price of DDR 400? it is almost twice the price of DDR2 800!!! WTF?!
Anyone have any ideas on why this system is so unstable?

 

[Canon]

I ran win 7 on my crappy old laptop with no crashing issues:
1.4 PM
1gb memory
32mb ATI Radeon 9000 graphics
etc.

1GB will not cause crashing and should work OK for basic tasks.

I would reccomend running a memory test to start and rule memory out
http://www.memtest86.com/

Might want to look for some chipset and storage controller drivers and give that a go.

 

[engiNURD]

... I was thinking that I don't have enough memory, and am thinking about upgrading to 2gig. Have you looked at the price of DDR 400? it is almost twice the price of DDR2 800!!! WTF?! ...

You missed your window. There was a time when DDR 400 was $20 for 1GB, but since mass production has shifted to DDR2, DDR prices have been high; and now that they're shifting to DDR3, DDR2 and DDR will start to climb in price... thus is the cycle of DRAM.