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Hello

I just swapped out the 256MB DDR SDRAM chip on my HP PAvilion A705w twith a 512 MB RAM chip I purchased.... Wow it works!

The machine has two slots.... Can I put the old 256MB chip into slot 2 and reboot to get a net 788MB or does slot 2 have to have a balanced (now 512MB chip)

I am afraid to try it and screw something up.

Thanks for any help!

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Should be ok in slot 2. Usually only older machines and high-end servers require matched memory...if that were the case the 512 probably wouldn't have worked without another matched 512.

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Should be ok in slot 2. Usually only older machines and high-end servers require matched memory...if that were the case the 512 probably wouldn't have worked without another matched 512.

Thanks...I'll give it a try.

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