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[enfield250]

Hello!

I have an Aspire 3050 running Vista Home Basic, I have loaded some programs that require 1gb of Ram.

However my machine only has 1gb of ram shared with the graphics. I would like to put 2gb in one slot and keep the 512mb in the other slot, I have tried this once, but the machine said it only had 512mb of ram. Is this configuration permissable, or do I need to change both 512mb for 1gb sticks? If this is not permissable will 1gb work in one slot with 512mb in the other?

Cheers!

[Vince53]

Welcome aboard, Enfield.

There is more than one version of your laptop, but the one I found supports 2 gigs of RAM.

SOMETIMES, RAM must be installed equally. In other words, you cannot have different amounts of RAM in different slots. SOMETIMES, RAM that appears to be identical have different clock speeds. In that case, the slower one must be installed in the first slot.

SOMETIMES, you just bought a defective RAM stick.

While both sticks are DDR2 (otherwise they wouldn't fit), there are different types of DDR2. You might have bought a type that is incompatible with your machine.

Try changing the slots you insert the RAM into. Try installing only your new RAM stick. If you still can't solve the problem, come back and give us the full model number of your machine, plus the identification numbers on your RAM sticks.

[enfield250]

Thanks for the advice Vince, my model is the 3055.

The ram is ddr pc-5300.

The machine seems to run ok! despite having only 1gb, I have upgraded the hard drive to 250gb as the original 80gb was far too small. With all the updates to Vista it only had 1.8gb left on the C drive.

My wife only  uses the laptop for cardmaking so, speed is not vitally important

Cheers