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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (347148)	8/20/2007 5:09:17 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576160

" I thought you would have to fool with the motherboard. If its just putting it into a slot in the tower.....that's cake." It would be a memory slot. They are close to the processor. Usually black plastic with little white locks on each end. Motherboards of that vintage often have the memory slots under the cage where the optical drive is, or at least close. Most motherboards also had 4 memory slots, so you could likely get by with a single 256 meg. SDRAM stick. Maybe $20, probably less. Here is a link. Let me make sure I understand what you're saying. I think I have seven slots on the back of my tower. A slot to me means a rectangular opening that is 1/2" by 6". If so, the top slot has a black plastic overlay but no white locks on each end as far as I can tell. If I am correct with my understanding of what constitutes a slot, then the examples of ram you linked to with simply slide into the opening. Then I would have to secure it with screws and nuts and that's it. Is that right? Going one step further.......do they sell 1 Gig of ram? I figure if I am going to upgrade why not go all the way. And If I put in an additional Gig would that be addition to or in lieu of the existing 512 Megs? TIA. Even if it is close to the drive cage, you can often put a stick in without removing anything. Just look at the DIMM. It has a slot in it that is off center. If you look at the slot, you will see a plastic key that is off center. Be sure they line up. Lay the plastic locks down and line up the DIMM and press it firmly into the slot until the locks come up and engage the little notches in the sides of the stick. If it were me, I'd spend the extra $5 and get a 512 meg. stick. This sounds like a different approach for different circumstances from the one above. Is that correct?