Slacker7
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My sister gave me an old Toshiba Tecra S1 laptop that had been sitting in her closet for a year and a half. She got it from the company she worked for. They were giving them away (with one very expensive leather Dell notebook carrying case).
I didn't expect much considering it was company laptop dating from 2003 and it had a lot of user accounts. But suprisingly after spending about 3 days tweaking and testing (such as HD diagnostic) and upgrading to SP2 (why they never installed service pack 2 I haven't a clue) it has turned out to be a very stable system. All ports work and it is a decent laptop for doing office work, power point presentations, surfing the net, etc. It has the latest and last BIOS installed.
Right now it has 512 megs of DDR PC2100. The motherboard is designed for 2 gigs of RAM and I can either install PC2100 266 or PC2700 333. Crucial's memory configuration says it definitely can take PC2700. Kingston's configuration said that though I can install the PC2700 it will only run at 266 regardless of what I install. To quote Kingston, "266 and 333 are both supported for this system, and can be mixed, but will only run at 266MHz no matter what is installed." The thing is I haven't found this information anywhere else. I have done quite a bit of searching, including Toshiba's own website that is definitely not user friendly, but I can't find what I am looking for in that did the later revisions and BIOS enable PC2700 to run at its full potential.
Right now I can get both PC2100 and 2700 at the same price. In your opinion, should I go ahead and install the PC2700 or stick with PC2100? Thanks.
I didn't expect much considering it was company laptop dating from 2003 and it had a lot of user accounts. But suprisingly after spending about 3 days tweaking and testing (such as HD diagnostic) and upgrading to SP2 (why they never installed service pack 2 I haven't a clue) it has turned out to be a very stable system. All ports work and it is a decent laptop for doing office work, power point presentations, surfing the net, etc. It has the latest and last BIOS installed.
Right now it has 512 megs of DDR PC2100. The motherboard is designed for 2 gigs of RAM and I can either install PC2100 266 or PC2700 333. Crucial's memory configuration says it definitely can take PC2700. Kingston's configuration said that though I can install the PC2700 it will only run at 266 regardless of what I install. To quote Kingston, "266 and 333 are both supported for this system, and can be mixed, but will only run at 266MHz no matter what is installed." The thing is I haven't found this information anywhere else. I have done quite a bit of searching, including Toshiba's own website that is definitely not user friendly, but I can't find what I am looking for in that did the later revisions and BIOS enable PC2700 to run at its full potential.
Right now I can get both PC2100 and 2700 at the same price. In your opinion, should I go ahead and install the PC2700 or stick with PC2100? Thanks.
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