RAM upgrade not recognized on MacBook Pro

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I have a MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz (2008). Max RAM capability is 4GB. I know I bought the right config (2x 2GB) but only one is showing up under About this Mac. I'm a novice at such this sort of thing and would appreciate any help I can get. My poor Mac is slower than before. :-(

Have you bought the right type of RAM? Note that your Mac requires 667MHz DDR2 RAM. What you can try is to swap the memory modules (put the RAM module you have in one slot in the other one, and so on) to see if this is a problem with the slot or with the module.
If the problem only happens with one RAM module, I would recommend you to return that RAM module and get another one.

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