too much ram??

gladrock · 01-15-2008, 09:08 PM

i have a thread in the laptop section about upgrading my ram in my toshiba. however it says on a few websites that the max i can upgrade it is 2gb (two 1gb cards) what happens if this is exceeded, not that i intend to just curious. i thought this thread should go here as its not specifically to do with laptops.

lovely? · 01-15-2008, 09:31 PM

i believe when a motherboard goes past its supported memory it simply does not read any more.

JLV2k5 · 01-15-2008, 09:47 PM

I think the extra RAM simply isnt used, wasted.

Desfer · 01-15-2008, 09:58 PM

Yes, it gets wasted.

GSAV55 · 01-15-2008, 10:05 PM

Yeah, it just doesn't recognize it at all.

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gladrock New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 7	too much ram?? i have a thread in the laptop section about upgrading my ram in my toshiba. however it says on a few websites that the max i can upgrade it is 2gb (two 1gb cards) what happens if this is exceeded, not that i intend to just curious. i thought this thread should go here as its not specifically to do with laptops.

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