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Upgrade RAM – What is the procedure?

What are the procedure to upgrade the RAM? Please help me. I want to do the job personally.

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What are the procedure to upgrade the RAM? Please help me. I want to do the job personally.


 

RAM is probably the easiest thing to upgrade hardware-wise in a computer.

What you need to do is take the case side off, and look at the RAM chips. If they’ve got 2 notches in the bottom, then go buy some PC-133 RAM to put in your computer, if there’s only one notch then it’s DDR in which case you’ll need to get DDR RAM to throw in there.

Simply unlock the tabs on either side of the RAM slot, line up the notches, and snap the chip into place. Make sure it’s seated well, and that the locking tabs on either side are all the way in place.

Following that all you have to do is turn on the computer. If it boots up and counts the RAM higher than before, you’re in luck! All done! If not, then either the chip isn’t seated properly, or the computer doesn’t like it which does happen every so often.

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Extremely old computers don’t like single chips with large amounts of RAM on them. For example, your machine may be able to handle 512 megabytes of RAM, but only if it’s split up into two 256 meg chips. One 512 chip might not work.

This usually only happens with older machines, so I wouldn’t worry about it. Really, as long as you’re careful, the worst that could happen is that your computer doesn’t boot with the new chip in it. In that case, just remove it.

Also, when adding anything to your computer always ground yourself on some metal beforehand. Computer motherboard + static = crappy.

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