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    Sony VGN-FE Ram upgrade problem

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Jokkon, Mar 3, 2008.

  1. Jokkon

    Jokkon Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,

    I have a first gen CoreDuo Vaio Fe. Recently its going so freaking slow so I bought 2 sticks of 4 gigs OCZ pc2-5400 ram. I believe that the core duo only supports 2gig but I am planning on to upgrade to a new computer soon so I bought 2 sticks of 4. The problem is when I put both of the new sticks in, the computer will boot up and freeze after the windows loading screen. I thought I could put the sticks in and the computer just wouldn't recignize it. Now I only have a 2 gig stick in and it works. Just wondering if thats how it should be?? THank you very much in advance.

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    Jokkon, Mar 3, 2008
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    boko Notebook Consultant

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    the core 2 duo in fe series are not santa rosa yet. Napa platform can't recognize more than 2gb of ram. Try using 2gb and 1gb too, and i think it cant work... Oh yeah, when you put 4gb of ram, what does the bios said about the memory? 4GBs of ram?
     
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    what i tried was one 2gb(new) and one 512(old) and it worked the first time and when its in windows it says its 2.49ghz. But after a while when i tried again it wouldn't even boot anymore
     
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    try removing the 2gb and place the old one again, will it boot?
     
    boko, Mar 4, 2008
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