Upgrading Memroy

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Prso9

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Hi,

I'm new to this website.

I may or may not sound as though I know what I'm talking about but I don't really!! My computer is slow and I was going to buy a bigger memory to make it faster. I have two memory slots, only one is being used with I think 256mb of memory. I have checked on the manufacturers website and the maximum memory I can have is 2gb. According to the website memory modules should be installed in pairs of matched memory size. Would maxing the memory to 2gb with either a 2gb memory module (if there is such a thing) or two 1gb memory modules be and idea or would I be as well just buying a
1gb memory module to replace the old 256mb memory module that came with the computer?

Kind Regards.
 
Yes you can replace the one 256 with a 1gb stick. If it has a 2gb limit and you want 2gbs, you should get two 1gb sticks. There is a chance it will not read a single 2gb stick.
 
You're now going to find out how much I don't know!!

Would there be anything currently stored in the 256mb memory that needs to be transferred over to the memory or is that not what the memory does?
 
No, nothing is stored in the memory permanently, it's only used when powered up and written out when powered down. Just replace it and it will be fine.
 
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