I recently received my ebay 150.00 laptop and am enjoying it a great deal. It is quite a bit slower than my 2.2ghz AMD machine with it's 333mhz P1 chip and only 64MB. I checked on a few of the memory sites and it will accept up to 256 I guess. I found some memory on ebay but I can get a better deal on the 256MB sticks than the 128 sticks. Is there any reason I can't run a pair of 256 sticks? What possible damage could happen from running too much RAM?
Too much RAM???
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The_Other_One
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First off, that's a PII. P1's never got above 233 
Most laptops only have one slot for RAM, and not knowing what you have it's hard to say what you can or can't do... However, being as old as it is, I wouldn't suspect it to be able to handle more than 384. I know back around PII days, most boards could use 3 128 chips max(IE 384M)
Most laptops only have one slot for RAM, and not knowing what you have it's hard to say what you can or can't do... However, being as old as it is, I wouldn't suspect it to be able to handle more than 384. I know back around PII days, most boards could use 3 128 chips max(IE 384M)
Yep, my bad. it's PII machine. It is a 390E model IBM. I have already scoped out the memory slots...it has 2 slots currently occupied by 32MB sticks.
SO, that said would it hurt anything to run a pair of 256 sticks. Even if it couldn't use all of it I would like as much as it can handle. Better to have an extra 150 than come up short of its max by 100 isn't it?
SO, that said would it hurt anything to run a pair of 256 sticks. Even if it couldn't use all of it I would like as much as it can handle. Better to have an extra 150 than come up short of its max by 100 isn't it?
try finding out what motherboard you have and make sure that it can handle the type of ram that you have bought( check the speed). adding this ram, if its compatible, will not neccessarily harm( that i know of) your computer, but it may be too much of it in the sense that some of it will be a waste cause you probably wont use that much ram while using the pII.