Toshiba 1005-S157 Ram question

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bidaci

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I have a Toshiba laptop 1005-S157. I just went and bought an additional 256 RAM for this to bring my RAM to 508. Toshiba says the max RAM for this is 512, but the person in the store wanted to sell me an additional 512. When I asked about this they seemed suprised that with Windows XP the system wouldn't go above 512 RAM. If I remember correctly when I bought this unit it was supposed to have been bundled with Win98, yet it came through with XP. Obviously I upgraded to the 512 but was wondering if I could go higher and if so what could be expected in increased speed.

I hope this hasn't been discussed before. I did search the forums without any luck.

Thanks in advance.
 
The person at the store didn't know what he was talking about. Toshiba says that's all it will support, well that's it. Motherboards can only support so much memory. He assumed, since it had XP you could just keep going.
 
Thanks for the quick reply. That what I thought, but unfortunately I know even less then the person in the store. Glad I found this forum, it's full of great info!
 
well if you go by a motherboard today and it has 4 ram slots the most supported ram is 4 gigs. since a gig is the highest around right now 1 gig times 4 slots is 4 gigs. so say your notebook has 2 slots and you say windows 98 i assume that around that time before windows ME was around that the most they had for notebooks was 256. so you can't go any higher. Thay may have confused the guy at the store. Otherwise it may be able to support more but they only put the max at 512 because when the computer was made there wasn't any hire number around for laptops.
 
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