Is it wrong to remove RAM (SD in this case) from the ram slot 1 (the first ram slot)?

[majesticdiviner]

Reason when I am asking is because the new heatsink I have is massive (it's a TT Volcano 5) and I had to remove my first RAM DIMM so I could fit it in the case. I'm a tad curious also because, no matter what I do, I keep running into out of memory errors, I have 320MB of memory and am running out of space with only a small handfull of TSRs and around four external programs running...I sit at only about 29-34% reasources free (though that will drop to less then 10% pretty quick) it's as if I have like 32MB of memory, and not 320MB....
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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:burn: oooppp!!! Placed this in the wrong place, I'll post another in the memory section, sorry.......

[]-[itman]

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[It_The_Cow]

If you're using ME as your signature says, that may be your problem. 98-ME doesn't seem to like systems with a lot of memory. Consider upgrading your OS to 2000 or XP. That or only leave in 256MB of RAM