computer repair be aware....

[upthesaukee]

Originally Posted by no-engine

Personal opinion: Be cautious when a service says he'd replace one memory card. I have always been told they should be installed in pairs.

As with anything, do one's homework - my opinion.

Older RAM (SIMM's) needed to be installed in pairs. Modern day RAM does not. If you have 512 ram and want to increase, and have a spot available, you can put one stick in.

That was my own case last summer. My max RAM is 2GB, I had 512MB, so rather than pull out the 512, I just put in one 1GB, giving me a gigabyte and a half of RAM...plenty for my Windows XP operation.

but I do agree...bottom line, check your documentation (do your homework).

Good source for all sorts of questions for the novice is:

http://askbobrankin.com/

I subscribe to a newsletter that he and Pat Crispen put out, and find it to be a great source of info that I can understand.