memory upgrade

[survivor]

Just read your instructions on memory upgrade which should be easy to follow but one question I do have is if there are (2) 1Gb modules installed now and I have (2) new 512Mb Modules I would like to install to increase the memory in which slot order do they have to be in?

[chunkylover53]

Should be in matched pairs, and your motherboard's manual should describe how they should be matched. My MoBo has an A1-A2-B1-B2 setup, so the 1gb sticks would go in A1 & B1, and the 512's would go in the A2 & B2.

Sound right to everyone else?

[RickyTick]

I don't know why you didn't get 2 more that matched to 2 already in there. Then you'd have 4 identical sticks and could put them all in with no worry whatsoever. But that's just me.

Now you have 3gb of ram, and I bet you have Windows XP 32 bit, which runs perfectly fine on 2 gb of ram.

[survivor]

The two (1Gb) were installed when computer was built over a year ago so I decided to just upgrade to have a little more memory.Thanks for the info on slot install.