Easier than microwaving cold pizza!
Jun 22 '00
You know, if I was a money hungry guy who loved to sponge off the ignorance of others, I'd become one of three things: a lawyer, CEO of my own insurance company, or the type of person who charges outrageous amounts of money to install computer hardware such as memory.
Installing RAM into your computer is as easy as microwaving last night's cold pizza. In fact, you can install RAM about as fast as it would take to reheat 3 pizzas of pepperoni to the point that the cheese was bubbling.
The first thing you will need to do is determine what kind of RAM you need. There are SIMM's, DIMM's, 72 pin, 128 pin, etc. There aren't that many different options, but most are not interchangeable. You will need to consult your PC manufacturer to determine which kind of chip you need. In fact, I believe there are some online resources to help you determine what type of chip your computer uses.
Once you've purchased the appropriate memory, all you have to do is open up your computer and find where the RAM goes. On your motherboard (the big green thingy with all the chips stuck on it) there is only one kind of slot where a RAM chip may fit. ONE! Sometimes you may have to push some cables and wires out of the way to find it, but it is there, and usually there are at least 4 of these kinds of slots on the motherboard, with one or two already being used with the pittance of RAM that came pre-installed in your hungry computer.
RAM chips are fitted in a way that they will only properly fit into the slot ONE WAY. You will see on one end of the chip a little hole, so find the tab on the motherboard that fits that little whole and align the chip as so. Then you simply place the chip in the slot, at a slight angle, then push it up into place and the clamps on both side will hold it in. Now close your computer and you are done.
If your computer was made within the last 10 years, it should recognize the new RAM immediately and then start running. If you seem to have less RAM than before, you probably installed the chip backwards, so simply take it out, turn it around, and stick it back in THE ONLY OTHER WAY IT CAN GO. DUH!
Note: Some older Pentium-based computer systems require that you install RAM chips in pairs, and these chips have to be the same size. If you have one of these old clunkers, you may want to double check this so that you purchase what works for your machine.
Don't pay some schmo 50 bucks (which seems to be the going price because it is the minimum charge that most computer stores put on you just for you letting them touch your computer) to add RAM. Anybody can do it.
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