A hypothetical RAM question.

[happyhopkins]

Here goes, a friend of mine bought 1gb of extra RAM for his laptop. Turns out the laptop isn’t recognising the RAM, and the only reason he can think of this is that the laptop can only handle in total 1GB of RAM, the originally installed RAM isn’t able to be accessed to be removed and superseded with the 1gb. So, my friend wants to send this RAM back and buy a 512 replacement, problem is, cause the RAM has been opened and ‘used’, the company wont accept it for a refund unless it is actually faulty, so question is, how can my mate intentionally blow the RAM so that when it’s tested by the returns department, it comes up as faulty and he gets his money back?

Now obviously I’ve tried to tell him how wrong it is of him to do this, and how utterly stupid it was of him not to check the max RAM his mobo could handle before buying the upgrade.

As a side note, how common is it with a laptop not to allow access to the original memory board? My own laptop allows access to the original RAM board, but my friends doesn’t.????

Cheers guys!

 

[TrainTrackHack]

How did he find out it supports only 1gb of ram? If it's just a thought... might be wrong. I don't think anyone's going to help you blow the ram, but we might be able of figuring out something else...

 

[happyhopkins]

Hi hacka, cheers for the reply. Here's the spec sheet for the laptop:

http://forum.novatech.co.uk/files/Mitac8640specsheet.pdf

I take it the fact is has 256mb with it means it just wont recognise the 1gb board full stop?As I say, the 256mb board isn't readily available to remove, which from my personal experience is a little odd, unless the 256 ram isn't a stick of RAM in the traditional sense, maybe some form of onboard/unremovable RAM? But thats not something I've ever seen before so I don't know if that's even possible. Would seem to me that if something went wrong with the 256mb then the whole laptop would become unusable for good?

Cheers.