Digital BW, The Print

It may or may not be simple. Depenent on the age of your system.
The older ones can only support 256M RAM If you have one of those 
the RAM cards are quite specific and you likely have only 3 slots so 
you will get to 768M. Otherwise 512M cards are possible or the less 
expensive 256M cards that can alos be used.

When changing memory it is quite likely that you will get a bad 
contact first time around. Look at your motherboard manual and see 
what memory combinations you can support. I would suggest not 
changing everything at once. Put one new RAM in (not in the first 
slot) see what happens if it is recognised properly promote it to 
the first slot and then put in the others step by step.

There is nothing like flying completely blind by changing every 
thing and facing a machine that only manages to beep a warning but 
will not boot.

At every memory change some machines insist on going through the 
CMOS setup even though they recognise the memory change.

You also need to figger how to turn your machine off. The on/off you 
are accustomed to is really a soft on/off there may be another on 
the back of the machine or just pull the plug out of the wall.

For many machines if you fiddle with expansion slots or memory slots 
while the machine is only soft off you will kill the motherboard and 
an unspecified number of what is connected to it.

In summary it is a very simple job to change memory but the margin 
for error can be non-existent.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Lyons Cox" 
<lyonscox@c...> wrote:
> I'm one of the many who, to upgrade to Photoshop CS, will have to 
upgrade
> the OS to XP.
> 
> Since the 512 RAM was a limitation of Win98, I was wondering if 
people were
> upgrading their RAM at the same time?
> I've stuck other equipment into the box but haven't done a RAM 
upgrade yet
> and was wondering if its a simple?
> I'd like to go from 512 to 1G.  Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cleavis