Upgrading Inspirons beyond 2GB?

Hi,

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I didn't find any threads about it with a few searches. I have two Inspirons, a 1705 and 1505. Will they accept two 2GB SODIMMs? How about one 2GB SODIMM and one 1GB SODIMM?

Thanks for any help,
orange roughy

 

Should not be a problem. Just remember that you need a 64 bit OS to see all 4 GB. If you have a 32 bit OS, the 1GB + 2GB setup will probably be better.

 

I know for a fact that the motherboard of the 1505 CANNOT use more than 2 gigs of ram. I know that because I have an inspiron 6400 which is a renamed 1505 and have already tried it not to mention I hvae double checked with Dell support. Considering the 1705 is part of the same generation of inspirons, i assume it can't use more than 2 gigs either but i'm not sure about that.

 

Oh, I am sorry if I gave mis-information. I have a friend with what I thought was a 1505 and it has 4 GB of RAM.

 

i got my GF a 1505 and 2GB sticks wont fit. i had to use 2x1GB sticks in it. it has a 2GB max. so 1GB per DIMM.

 

What do you mean it "won't fit". 2x2GB sticks are the same physical size as 2x1GB sticks. My question is whether or not the inspirons will recognize 3GB or 4GB or ram.

 

I have E1705 and i have a 1 gig stick & 2 gig stick windows XP see's 3 gigs so does the bios. System runs fine, hope that helps.

 

thanks, crash!!

now if i only had the same info for the 1505

 

1505 should be fine with more memory max 4g's, same system just bigger screen on 1705.

 

that's what i was thinking, too. it does have a different CPU, but probably the same mobo and chipsets. i'll give it a try, if it doesn't work I'm only out $35 or so.

thanks for the help,
orange roughy

 

I know that this might be late, but I recently purchased a 2x2gb kit of OCZ ram and split them up between our two e1505's and they work just fine. Vista 32bit see's and recognizes 2.5gb of ram on my machine and xp sees and recognizes 2.5gb ram on my fiance's machine. I figured that was a better use of the ram then sticking both in my machine and having almost an entire GB wasted.