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I have an older HP Pavillion Desktop 502n running XP Home. It has 128mb of SDRAM. I have another stick of 128mb ram labeled PC-100. Can I add it in with the existing ram?
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need more info on the new ram module.
whats the manufacturer? check with the manufacturer's website. supposedly if u use pc100 and have another pc 100 ram it should work. but should make sure.
how bout try put it in and if work then guess it works and if not then wrong ram
It should be compatible, as long as the new stick is the same as the old... The most common is Unbuffered, Non ECC unregistered ram... You cannot mix ECC (Error Correction Code) and Non ECC memory... But it won't hurt anything if they don't match... Just stick it in, and turn the computer back on... If you have twice as much memory, you're good. If you get a POST code beeping at you, take it back out...
You can buy a stick of PC100 128MB ram for around $13 shipped, so it's not really a big deal if it doesn't work... But I would definitely add some memory to the thing...
Go to: www.crucial.com. They have a little program which will scan your PC and tell you exactly what RAM is for you.
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