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    Just a few questions

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by manny951, Oct 20, 2011.

  1. manny951

    manny951 Notebook Geek

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    I have a sony vaio vgn-nr220e just bought me a used alienware for me it was a huge step up i know it wasn't new but something i could afford well this thing had a dual core intel @ 1.6 ghz it ran so slow i upgraded the hardrive to a 7200 rpm black drive and i upgraded the cpu @ 2.10 ghz t 8100 series they said this laptop can only run 2 gb of ram but yesterday i ran it at 3 gb for a whole day but out of nowhere it shut down ane refused to take 3 gb took the 2 gb back in i just dont know what to do to run this 3 gb :[
     
    manny951, Oct 20, 2011
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  2. Gracy123

    Gracy123 Agrees to disagree

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    How you packed all this in ONE sentence I'll never know...! Need to reed it a few more times to understand your question.
     
    Gracy123, Oct 20, 2011
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  3. miki69

    miki69 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello manny,

    I still don't follow your question/issue: are you talking about Vaio or Alienware? If Alienware, you're in the wrong thread, I'm afraid.

    If you talk about Sony VGN-NR, do you have 2 or 3 GB RAM installed?

    Like Gracy said it's quite difficult to understand your problem....


    Cheers,
    Miki
     
    miki69, Oct 20, 2011
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  4. awenthol

    awenthol Notebook Guru

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    "Running" 3GB and "recognizing" 3GB are two different things. If your MoBo can only support 2, it can only support 2, and as you found out, will crash with 3.
     
    awenthol, Oct 20, 2011
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