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    Memory help - someone tell me if this will work

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by newton, Jul 31, 2007.

  1. newton

    newton Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi there, noobie here. I ordered a Vostro 1500 7/11 and according to Fedex, it will finally be here tomorrow morning.

    Anyways, I currently have an old Toshiba M55 notebook running on 256MB single stick DDR2 PC2-4200 (just opened her to confirm). She also has an empty slot. Now, to my understanding, the Vostros run on PC2-5300 RAM. I ordered my Vostro with 1GB of RAM (512MBx2). What I plan to do it yank one of the sticks out of the Vostro, and stick it in my Toshiba, making it run at 768 MB. I would run down to Fry's and buy a 1GB PC2-5300 stick and stick it in the Vostro, making it run at 1.5GB.

    What do you guys think? Would the two computers work alright? No dual-channel of course, but I'm fine with that. I ordered my Vostro with WinXP, so 1.5GB should be plenty. I don't want to open the keyboard, so I'll leave that one 512MB in there.

    Thanks.
     
    newton, Jul 31, 2007
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    newton Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, that I don't mind. I just want to bump the amount of RAM in the old Toshiba. I'm concerned with the reliability of running this setup.
     
    newton, Jul 31, 2007
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    Yes, it will work. The PC2-5300 will just run at a lower speed.
     
    dc74, Jul 31, 2007
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    LOL I was just re-reading your post and editing my response to better fit... but anyways, it'll work, there shouldn't be any reliability issues, so long as it is all reasonble quality RAM.
     
    dc74, Jul 31, 2007
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    Yeah, that scared me. I thought I was quoting invisible posts. Thanks man.
     
    newton, Jul 31, 2007
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    Oops, I did it again!
     
    dc74, Jul 31, 2007
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