RAM ....... What???

tejmar · Post by **tejmar** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:14 am

I am looking at upgrading the RAM in my notebook, can anyone recomend what I should fit to my mine. I will probably look at going to 1x 512 in first and ultimatley fit a 2nd 512. What sort of RAM will work best and how many pins are involved (ive seen some RAM advertised with 184 pins and some with 200?)
Specs as follows -
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

2.60 gigahertz Intel Celeron
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
128 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A2H/L REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. 0213 04/29/2004
Drives Memory Modules c,d
28.10 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
18.59 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ASUS SCB-2408 [CD-ROM drive]

IC25N030ATMR04-0 [Hard drive] (30.00 GB) -- drive 0, s/n MRG218KBGA8GDJ, rev MOAOAD4A, SMART Status: Healthy
Winbond Memory Stick Drive [Hard drive] -- drive 1
Winbond Secure Digital Drive [Hard drive] -- drive 2 224 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM 1' has 256 MB
Slot 'DIMM 2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (FAT32 on drive 0) 16.87 GB 7.42 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 11.23 GB 11.17 GB free

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:24 am

It would be very helpful to know what brand and model your laptop is.

tejmar · Post by **tejmar** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:17 am

Asus A2H Notebook

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:14 am

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

that will tell you what you have, but probably DDR1 sodimm is what you want. If you have 2 256 meg chips, then you would need 2 512 meg chips of course. It only has 2 memory slots from what I can see.

can also go here

http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/co ... earch.html

and that will tell you exactly - says the 333 or 266 will work in yours...use the link above first - the other is a program you have to install.

have fun
Mike

P.S. - isnt 512 enough in that laptop? must be doing a LOT for 1gb ;) I would just throw another 256 into it and be done. But thats me

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:24 am

I looked it up for ya and you definitely need DDR 266 (PC2100) as it appears to be the max speed. It also happens to have 200 pins. Also, it's definitely capable of 1 gb of ram.

Something with similar specs to this should do nicely.

tejmar · Post by **tejmar** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:40 am

thank u