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mpic92 · 10-22-2006, 10:59 PM

I'm pretty good with computers but I'm not familiar with upgrading my PC's RAM. I have a HP Desktop with a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 processor and 512 MB of RAM. I'm interested in upgrading to at least a gig of RAM. What are the steps I would go through to do this? I'm not necessarily asking how to get inside my computer and upgrade it but more like how do I know if a certain stick of RAM is compatible with my computer. Also, do all computers come with two slots of RAM? If so, does that mean I could buy a 512 MB stick and my computer would end up with 1 gig of RAM? That doesn't seem likely but again, I'm not familiar with RAM upgrading.

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mpic92 Silver Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: MA Posts: 180	Questions about upgrading RAM I'm pretty good with computers but I'm not familiar with upgrading my PC's RAM. I have a HP Desktop with a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 processor and 512 MB of RAM. I'm interested in upgrading to at least a gig of RAM. What are the steps I would go through to do this? I'm not necessarily asking how to get inside my computer and upgrade it but more like how do I know if a certain stick of RAM is compatible with my computer. Also, do all computers come with two slots of RAM? If so, does that mean I could buy a 512 MB stick and my computer would end up with 1 gig of RAM? That doesn't seem likely but again, I'm not familiar with RAM upgrading. __________________ New HP dv9000t Laptop: Genuine Windows XP Professional Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor T7200 (2.0 GHz) 17.0" WSXGA+ BrightView Widescreen (1680x1050) 512MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7600 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024MB)