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Without a motherboard manual system and specs their is always a degree of guessing.
I do believe that most system will boot with one stick of ram as long as the ram meets the Windows 7 minimum specs. One just has to figure out which ram slot.
Once booted we can work on what channel the motherboard likes. It's either going to be two black or two yellow which should put that old board in dual channel.
Example:
On the motherboard in my specs I can install just one stick of ram in in slot D-1 which is two slots to the right of the cpu.