Upgrading RAM on Laptop?
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Topic: Upgrading RAM on Laptop?
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Subject: Upgrading RAM on Laptop?
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 11:40pm
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Can anyone help me out here?
My Laptop is a Toshiba A200 series, can't find the exact model number & have gone through all the manuals and stickers on the back of computer to no avail. BUT I did unscrew the area where the RAM is stored, I have 2 x PC2-5300's (512MB) each. Ideally I wanted to upgrade to 2GB, but if I buy 1GB it will only be 1.5GB, so I'm considering buying 2GB RAM (and hoping like hell that my computer can take that much ...I have no idea about these things...). If PC2-5300 is what's printed on the RAM is that the number I have to look for? Any places you can suggest purchasing RAM from for a reasonable price? I know places like Bond & Bond charge the earth! Help SOMEONE! |
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 8:00am
| Have PM'd you. |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 8:11am
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Why do you need that much RAM?
http://www.pricespy.co.nz - pricespy is a good place to look for comp parts |
Posted By: Konagirl
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 8:15am
| Just want to second the vote for using PriceSpy, that's where we brought our ram. However got friend to put it in. |
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 9:35am
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Stacey ...my laptop is running incredibly slow at the moment. I'm not entirely sure why it's declined so much, it takes a good 5-10 minutes just to open folders to view files/photos ...SO FRUSTRATING!
I'd like to have several programs open at once...currently I can only have one program open at a time and even then it STILL takes AGES to load. It's such a pain. |
Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 10:06am
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1g of ram should be plenty... so you might want to look elsewhere for trying to sort out load times. Do you defrag the laptop often? -------------  
 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 10:08am
| It sounds like your laptop could use a format. When our comps start running like that we just give it a format and it runs soooo much better afterwards. |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 10:13am
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I'd clear your cookies and your temp internet files and history.
Definitely run a defrag as the girls have suggested. Sounds to me like theres something running in the background. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 10:46am
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Okayyyyyyy ....can someone please help me out here.
1. What is defrag? 2. How do I do this? (clear steps please ...lol) 3. Cookies/Temp net files/History - umm help? And 4. how do I go about formatting my laptop? I have absolutely no idea. And to think I once studied computers in highschool, I'm far from being computer literate like I once was!!! |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 11:11am
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A defrag is short for Disk Defragmenter, which can be found in your start menu > accessories > system tools.
It is a computer program which comes standard with Windows which basically rearranges files stored on your harddisk which can speed things up, but in your case I don't think this is going to fix the problem. You can access the clear cookies and temp internet files by going to Tools > Internet Options within your web browser and you should see "delete" buttons within there. Also in the start menu > accessories > system tools there is a "disk cleanup" option you can use to delete temp files. Reformatting your laptop means you're basically reinstalling the operating system (XP or Vista or whatever you use)which yes will always speed things up, but is often a last resort if spyware and antivirus software doesn't do the trick. You would want to make sure you save all the data you want to keep from your laptop before you start, and also you need a restore/recovery disk with the operating system on it which should have come with the laptop.. unless your laptop has a recovery partition which means you can reformat without a disk. All this can be a bit daunting if you aren't entirely confident but I'm happy to give you a hand.. |
Posted By: lil_miss
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 5:08pm
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You'll find that bigger ram is actually cheaper :)
I recently upgraded to 2 x 1gb sticks in my laptop and each was around $40.. they're pretty cheap.. Nothing wrong with having more either... it certainly wont hurt.. If you've already got 2 x 512s then your best bet is to get 2 x 1gbs.. maximum for most laptops is a total of 2 anyway. The extra ram will certainly help with running multiple programmes at once. As programmes use up memory.. if you dont have much to use, they dont run as efficiently :) |