Hardware error on my iMac

Hello. I was having problems w/ my iMac and so I ran the Apple Hardware Test. It immediately came back with an error: 4MEM/2/40000000:3CBE8054
Does anyone know how to figure out what this means? It certainly looks like a memory problem, but I'd like to know for sure ...
(the machine is an iMac w/ 2 GB of RAM and a dual-core 2.33 GHz processor)
Thanks!

HI Andrew,
You are correct. The memory is bad and needs replacing.
Go here for help. Intel-based iMac: Installing and replacing memory (RAM)
Carolyn
Message was edited by: Carolyn Samit

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