Memory upgrade on Lenovo 3000 j100 (product number: 8254-E6G)

First of all, sorry for my English (I'm trying to improve it)
I run a Lenovo 3000 j100 Desktop with 1GB RAM with two modules of 512MB each one installed on the two slots that the mother board has.
I want to upgrade that memory to 4GB, but I have some doubts about that upgrade that I need to solve before buying the new memory additions.
I've read some commentaries about this topic and there are people who say that the maximum memory size for this models of Lenovo is 2GB RAM, I mean one module of 1GB on each slot.
However, the manual says that these desktops can be upgraded to 4GB RAM.
In consecuence, which is the maximum memory size supported by my Desktop's mother board ?
Sorry for my English again, I hope someone could help me because I wrote this question to Lenovo support and this service answered that I had to read the manual, they didn't solve my question.
Thank you for your attention.

Many thanks for your answer, but the type of memory of my computer is not the same as yours.
My Lenovo 3000 j100 memory sticks are not DDR2, they are DDR.
They have a sticker with this text on:
NT512D64S88B0GY-5T
512MB DDR-400MHz-CL3
PC3200U-30331

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You mention you have BIOS V1.05, the latest on Lenovo is V1.02 but with the same number 68ET21WW that you have. Typo?
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