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To check if your drivers are valid:
Go to Start -> Control Panel -> System
Click on the Hardware tab
Click on the Device manager button
If anything is invalid, it should be displayed in here either with a yellow or red icon.
(Yellow being a yeild sign, red being a stop sign).
If anything there is yellow or red, right click on it, and cycle through the tabs, and see what information you can get.

Then try downloading and installing the correct drivers from the vendors website.


To swap out memory (RAM) is pretty easy. But if you don't feel comfortable doing it, you can take it BestBuy, CompuSmart, Futureshop etc, and have them do it for you.

Find out if your computer uses DDR, or SDIM ram. If it if a fairly new computer, it probably is DDR. Your computer manuel should be able to tell you what kind of RAM your motherboard uses.
Go buy some new RAM from memoryexpress (actually, they may be do it for you).
Turn your computer off, open the case up. And look for things that look like what you just bought. There will be white tabs at each end. They pull open pretty easily, take the old ram out. Put the new ram in, and make sure that the clips close from you pushing the ram in.

Hope that helps, if you have any other questions, let me know.