Hi Bob,

When it comes to memory, I always trust the locator at www.crucial.com.
They list compatible memory from your make/model number. They have never
been wrong when I have ordered stuff. Their memory is also good quality.

They do happen to list memory for your notebook. It states that it has 2
slots, and can hold a maximum of 1024MB (1GB). A 512MB stick costs $94.00.
Not too bad.

The specific link for this is
http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=HP%2BPavilion+Notebooks&mfr=HP&cat=RAM&model=Pavilion+ze4300+Series&submit=Go

Note, I have no affiliation with Crucial Technologies, I just have used,
and been satisfied with their products and services.

Russ Poffenberger
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At 04:29 PM 3/13/2005, you wrote:
>I'm going out now to buy a pair of RAM cards for my wifes HP laptop, it's
>an HP Pavillion ZE 4300, with an Athlon processor, and the XP os. I tried
>to find out what type of memory cards to buy, but I'm not as familiar with
>XP as I am with W98se. As I searched through the system hardware profiles,
>I was not able to find out what type memory was in the machine, and ended
>up calling HP support with my model and serial # info, and after a long
>battle with broken english, I found that it has a single PC2100 266mhz 200
>pin 256mb card in one of 3 card slots. Besides wanting to know how in XP I
>might find out that particular info from a PC with XP in the future, I
>would like to know if the cards I may install can be larger than the 256mb
>in place, and when I do install them should I also remove the battery from
>the laptop to put them in
>or is it ok to just have it off at that time? Thanks.
>
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