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I recently bought a 1 gig stick of ram for my Inspiron 8200 (from
Crucial). It originally had 2 sticks of 256m, each. I took one stick
out and replaced it with the 1 gig stick, and left the other 256m in.
Laptop booted and functioned perfectly (and still does).
I then read that laptop sticks should always match (ie: I "should"
have gotten two 1-gig sticks, or bought a gig total, since I have two
slots for RAM). Is this true? Are you always "supposed" to make sure
that pairs of RAM sticks are the same size/capacity? Is there a
particular reason why?
Gwen
I recently bought a 1 gig stick of ram for my Inspiron 8200 (from
Crucial). It originally had 2 sticks of 256m, each. I took one stick
out and replaced it with the 1 gig stick, and left the other 256m in.
Laptop booted and functioned perfectly (and still does).
I then read that laptop sticks should always match (ie: I "should"
have gotten two 1-gig sticks, or bought a gig total, since I have two
slots for RAM). Is this true? Are you always "supposed" to make sure
that pairs of RAM sticks are the same size/capacity? Is there a
particular reason why?
Gwen