I have plans to upgrade memory of my Inspiron 5100 Laptop (3+ years
old, purchased in Belgium). Currently I have 512 MB RAM, and I WISH to
upgrade to as much as possible.
I posted the same question to Dell community forum as well, nothing
much has come out yet and therefore I am posting the question here.
Pls dont consider this as abuse, I just want to reach out to maximum
Dell users and people in general, who might have views/experiences/
knowledge about this topic.
I contacted crucial (www.crucial.com) and another vendor here in
Switzerland. Both of them say that Inspiron 5100 will support max 1 GB
RAM.
I have a feeling that they are mentioning that number based on Dell
specifications about the model. And that the actual supported might be
more than what Dell said 3 years back.
I again want to refer to other fellow forum-members who have more
knowledge and experience with this.
Technically, I think that a 32 bit system can support upto 4 GB of
RAM. Or is that understanding incorrect ?
What other factors can be responsible for the upper limit of RAM
supported on a given PC ?
On Apr 11, 3:12 pm, "Raghav" <sharma.raghven...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I have plans to upgrade memory of my Inspiron 5100 Laptop (3+ years
> old, purchased in Belgium). Currently I have 512 MB RAM, and I WISH to
> upgrade to as much as possible.
>
> I posted the same question to Dell community forum as well, nothing
> much has come out yet and therefore I am posting the question here.
> Pls dont consider this as abuse, I just want to reach out to maximum
> Dell users and people in general, who might have views/experiences/
> knowledge about this topic.
>
> I contacted crucial (www.crucial.com) and another vendor here in
> Switzerland. Both of them say that Inspiron 5100 will support max 1 GB
> RAM.
>
> I have a feeling that they are mentioning that number based on Dell
> specifications about the model. And that the actual supported might be
> more than what Dell said 3 years back.
>
> I again want to refer to other fellow forum-members who have more
> knowledge and experience with this.
>
> Technically, I think that a 32 bit system can support upto 4 GB of
> RAM. Or is that understanding incorrect ?
>
> What other factors can be responsible for the upper limit of RAM
> supported on a given PC ?
>
> Looking for knowledge and advice.
>
> regards
> raghav..
May be I should add, Its a P4 2.4GHz, running Windows XP Home SP2
"Raghav" <sharma.raghvendra@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1176297177.229010.151660@d57g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
> Hello there,
>
> I have plans to upgrade memory of my Inspiron 5100 Laptop (3+ years
> old, purchased in Belgium). Currently I have 512 MB RAM, and I WISH to
> upgrade to as much as possible.
>
> I posted the same question to Dell community forum as well, nothing
> much has come out yet and therefore I am posting the question here.
> Pls dont consider this as abuse, I just want to reach out to maximum
> Dell users and people in general, who might have views/experiences/
> knowledge about this topic.
>
> I contacted crucial (www.crucial.com) and another vendor here in
> Switzerland. Both of them say that Inspiron 5100 will support max 1 GB
> RAM.
>
> I have a feeling that they are mentioning that number based on Dell
> specifications about the model. And that the actual supported might be
> more than what Dell said 3 years back.
>
> I again want to refer to other fellow forum-members who have more
> knowledge and experience with this.
>
> Technically, I think that a 32 bit system can support upto 4 GB of
> RAM. Or is that understanding incorrect ?
>
> What other factors can be responsible for the upper limit of RAM
> supported on a given PC ?
>
> Looking for knowledge and advice.
>
> regards
> raghav..
>
The problem isn't age, it is the chipset. Many chipsets of that time period
were limited in their available memory support. Crucial is generally right
and doesn't limit themselves to the manufactureres limits. I've seen
several machines where Dell listed a lower limit than Crucial.
2GB would be quite expensive, though, as you only have two slots.
Personally, given its age, I wouldn't go about 1GB.
Raghav wrote:
>
> May be I should add, Its a P4 2.4GHz, running Windows XP Home SP2
Then it's almost certainly limited to 2GB MAX by the (Intel?) chipset it's
built on, which has a limitation of 1GB of RAM per memory _slot_.
The confusion in MAX RAM supported on P4 laptops usually arises from the
fact that 1GB SODIMM memory sticks weren't available at the time these
laptops were produced.
There are numerous Thinkpad P4 based laptops (e.g. T30, A31, etc.) which
have published manufacturer's specifications which state that they only
support 1GB (2 x 512MB) of RAM. In fact, all of these models support 2GB (2
x 1GB) of RAM.
--
James
Yes, the Inspiron 5100 series notebooks all have an Intel mobile chipset. They
can accept 2x1GB DDR SODIMMs... Ben Myers
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:17:45 GMT, "JHEM" <James@ESAD.SPAMMERS.thinkpads.com>
wrote:
>Raghav wrote:
>>
>> May be I should add, Its a P4 2.4GHz, running Windows XP Home SP2
>
>Then it's almost certainly limited to 2GB MAX by the (Intel?) chipset it's
>built on, which has a limitation of 1GB of RAM per memory _slot_.
>
>The confusion in MAX RAM supported on P4 laptops usually arises from the
>fact that 1GB SODIMM memory sticks weren't available at the time these
>laptops were produced.
>
>There are numerous Thinkpad P4 based laptops (e.g. T30, A31, etc.) which
>have published manufacturer's specifications which state that they only
>support 1GB (2 x 512MB) of RAM. In fact, all of these models support 2GB (2
>x 1GB) of RAM.
> Ben Myerswrote:
Yes, the Inspiron 5100 series notebooks all have an Intel mobile
chipset. They
> can accept 2x1GB DDR SODIMMs... Ben Myers
>
I tried it and IT WORKS!!
I've got that same Dell Inspiron 5100 & just happened to stumble
upon this thread 10 minutes before buying ram... this little machine
is a BEAST now with 2GBs of RAM.
I took a little leap of faith in you guys and bought two 1GB sticks at
a Fry's location for about $100 each. I can confirm that two 1GB
sticks of Kingston ValueRAM KVR266S0/1GR works perfectly. I've feared
that maybe they'll over heat - but so far they've been really smooth.
On Apr 21, 9:02 am, n...@spam.invalid (brandonjp) wrote:
> > Ben Myerswrote:
>
> Yes, the Inspiron 5100 series notebooks all have an Intel mobile
> chipset. They
>
> > can accept 2x1GB DDR SODIMMs... Ben Myers
>
> I tried it and IT WORKS!!
>
> I've got that same Dell Inspiron 5100 & just happened to stumble
> upon this thread 10 minutes before buying ram... this little machine
> is a BEAST now with 2GBs of RAM.
>
> I took a little leap of faith in you guys and bought two 1GB sticks at
> a Fry's location for about $100 each. I can confirm that two 1GB
> sticks of Kingston ValueRAM KVR266S0/1GR works perfectly. I've feared
> that maybe they'll over heat - but so far they've been really smooth.
>
> Thanks guys!
> --bp
Thanks to all of your advice, I also took The step and bought it. The
memory works.
Though, Recently I realized I need a second system (primarily a laptop
since we travel relatively more).
This time, I am thinking of going for an Apple as a second laptop.
I am a programmer at core, and want a unix box to play with.
any experieces in genral ?
I have already posted similar question to the mac forum also. I must
say, i did not find a single person who said a negative thing about
macs. But then, isn't it a bit all too nice. Is it really the case
that there is Nothing wrong with mac. Well, I am just trying to see
the flip side as well. If there are so many good things about mac, why
is the world still using windows ?
Objective advice please.
thanks again for the help with memory upgrade advices.
I tried to locate the ValueRAM KVR266S0/1GR memory at fry's site but it didn't have that exact one. Would another, such as the Kingston ValueRAM KVR400AK2/2GR (2GB (2x1gb) work as well?
Also are there any incompatibility issues, bios issues, etc with this memory?
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