Re: Laptop RAM FS/T (and a mini-rant)

From: Kurtis Peterson <kleedrac_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Sun Jun 04 2006 - 23:50:18 CST

Sorry to revive this month-old thread but I'm getting a new notebook for
school and it only comes with 256MB Ram and I'd like to upgrade but don't
have the coin. Does anyone happen to have a 256MB DDR2-400/533 SODIMM
kicking around not doing much? I'll happily take it off your hands :)

On 11/16/05, Conrad Knauer <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/16/05, Scott Wunsch <slg@tracking.wunsch.org> wrote:
>
> > P.P.S. Out of curiosity, does anyone know a simple method for
> > > determining the number of RAM slots in a computer and the details of
> > > the RAM in use without opening the computer? (say from a command line)
> >
> > dmidecode can sometimes tell you a remarkable amount of information.
> >
>
> Hey neat, that's the kind of thing I was looking for :)
>
> Here's what it says about the RAM I currently have installed:
>
> Handle 0x000A
> DMI type 6, 12 bytes.
> Memory Module Information
> Socket Designation: SO-DIMM
> Bank Connections: 0 1
> Current Speed: 8 ns
> Type: Other DIMM SDRAM
> Installed Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection)
> Enabled Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection)
> Error Status: OK
> Handle 0x000B
> DMI type 6, 12 bytes.
> Memory Module Information
> Socket Designation: SO-DIMM
> Bank Connections: 2 3
> Current Speed: 8 ns
> Type: Other DIMM SDRAM
> Installed Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection)
> Enabled Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection)
> Error Status: OK
>
> CK
>
Received on Sun Jun 4 23:50:23 2006

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