RAM for my laptop

firejunior88 · Sep 10, 2007

Hi all,

I have a Toshiba laptop that takes PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM. I bought a stick of ram off ebay extremely cheap, its 667 Mhz DDR2 PC2-5300 ram. Now if I put my newly bought stick into my laptop, will it be compatible? I'm sorry about the noob question, I'm new to this whole thing.

Any help is greatly appreciated... :santa:

White_Pawn · Sep 11, 2007

Eh. I don't think so. It needs to be so-Dimms. Double check.

aja · Sep 11, 2007

White_Pawn said:
Eh. I don't think so. It needs to be so-Dimms. Double check.

Yep, laptops take SO-DIMM as opposed to SDRAM

But if these are SO-DIMM sticks, then I think it will be compatible. I assume you mean that you want to use the old and new sticks at the same time? you need two slots of course. That should work, the memory will just run at the speed of the slowest stick. I would check with the manufacturer or the manual for compatability lists...

firejunior88 · Sep 11, 2007

White_Pawn said:
Eh. I don't think so. It needs to be so-Dimms. Double check.

How would I go about checking if they are so-Dimms?

I don't think it says on the sticks.

Jhonas · Sep 11, 2007

Compare them to normal RAM stivks, they are shorter and wider.
IF you dont have any Ram to hand, look inside your laptop and see if the two ram sticks are the same approximate size ( parts in the slot of the laptop.) if so, yes, just swap them out. If not, badluck, youve been cheated on ebay.
Pobably the first ever person to have that happen to you.....

firejunior88 · Sep 12, 2007

The ram stick I have is rather small compared to other ram. I kind of figured it was laptop ram. I just wanted to know if it would be compatible with my laptop. I didn't want to just throw it in their and then it doesn't work. Even if I did get cheated, it only cost me $3, so its not a big deal.

Trap05 · Sep 12, 2007

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgu...channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=G

If it looks like that then yeah no reason it shouldn't work unless it's dead/faulty. It should sync down the lower speed. What size did you buy and what is currently in your laptop?

firejunior88 · Sep 12, 2007

Trap05 said:
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgu...channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=G

If it looks like that then yeah no reason it shouldn't work unless it's dead/faulty. It should sync down the lower speed. What size did you buy and what is currently in your laptop?

Yea, that is what it looks like. I kind of figured it was the right size and everything. My laptop currently has 384, and the stick I bought is 512. Will it work?

hafa · Sep 12, 2007

firejunior88 said:
Yea, that is what it looks like. I kind of figured it was the right size and everything. My laptop currently has 384, and the stick I bought is 512. Will it work?

If it's not defective, it will work, but at the laptops rated memory bus speed, unless you overclock

firejunior88 · Sep 13, 2007

hafa said:
If it's not defective, it will work, but at the laptops rated memory bus speed, unless you overclock

Which means there really is no point in putting it in because it will only run at 384? Is that what you are saying?

hafa · Sep 13, 2007

firejunior88 said:
Which means there really is no point in putting it in because it will only run at 384? Is that what you are saying?

Not unless installing it will increase your overall memory capacity...

Trap05 · Sep 13, 2007

OK so if you have 384 take the 128mb stick out and put in the one you bought. See if it boots

firejunior88 · Sep 14, 2007

Trap05 said:
OK so if you have 384 take the 128mb stick out and put in the one you bought. See if it boots

I will try that and see what happens. What's the worse that could happen?.....

aja · Sep 14, 2007

firejunior88 said:
I will try that and see what happens. What's the worse that could happen?.....

BOOM!!!

LOL, joking

Worst is that you could get errors and may get a corrupt BIOS, but that is unlikely. Even more unlikely is any physical damage. If something is wrong it will probably just not boot

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