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netbook ram upgrade

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by bpanther, Jan 23, 2011.

  1. bpanther

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    i have a Lenovo s10 net book with X P on it and it has on board ram of 1 gig with a spare slot to upgrade so i installed a 2 gig ddr2 Lexar ram that supports 800mhz all pc2 6400 667mhz 5300 533mhz 4200 speeds when i install this and boot up with the steps provided when upgrading by Lenovo the monitor does not boot on but the system seems too when i remove the ram it works fine why is this by the way its brand new ram not used
     
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    1.5 is that 512 not another 1 gig
     
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    another 512meg so that you'll have 1gig in 1 slot & 512meg in 2nd slot for a total of 1.5gig.
     
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    sucks u cant use 1 gig cuz 1 gig onbard would make 2 gig total if i could instead of a 512 in the only slot available and yes i know the speed i need i called lenovo i need the 667mhz 5300 ddr2 but that reads same for 1 and 512
     
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    the bios & motherboard circuitry is configured to read max of 1.5gig of ram. you had pc2 6400 667mhz in your 1st post which is why i said pc2 5300 ram.
     
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    ok ty very much um after this 512 upgrade will it run windows 7 version ok?
     
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    no problem, teach & learn.
     

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