Do all laptops take the same RAM?

[marinyork]

It's the speed. In theory it could work on the slower if 667MHz is in there but better to match them up.

You have two methods. Check the bios or use something like http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

 

[swee'pea99]

Again, many thanks. Not quite sure what I'm looking for. Sorry to be such a dork. Is this it?

 

[marinyork]

What does the memory tab look like?

 

[swee'pea99]

This:

 

[marinyork]

Hmmm. It's 667MHz. What was I thinking, oh yeah, the timings on that thing look a little out and it seems to think it's running single channel which is a tad peculiar.

 

[swee'pea99]

Talk to a techy, it ends up in gibberish. Every time. Without fail.

Still, least I know which one to get now. Now to get it. Many thanks.

 

[marinyork]

Good time to upgrade what with memory the way it is. You run XP? Should be quite nippy on 2Gb although 1Gb is all right.

 

[yenrod]

geeks[/B]' just get off on there own talk as far as I can tell

 

[swee'pea99]

Hmmm. It's 667MHz. What was I thinking, oh yeah, the timings on that thing look a little out and it seems to think it's running single channel which is a tad peculiar.

Incidentally, what was it that told you it was 667MHz? I was looking for that (or 533), but couldn't find it on any of the tabs. Just out of interest/for future reference. Thanks.

 

[marinyork]

That slot 1 had in it something that had a maximum bandwidth of 333Mhz. The best place to really look if you want to do this sort of thing in future is the Bios. Usually you press F10, Escape or Del and it takes you in. On most PCs it used to tell you how much ram you had in (the ram check on boot up) and what speed, now they don't tend to so you have to look in the bios directly. Not really needed unless you want to overclock it and there's little point doing that in a laptop.