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From: knights-move on 9 May 2007 16:58 Hello All, Being the owner of a venerable Sony PCG GRV550 laptop (BIOS:R0203B1) I am frequently intrigued by the idea of bumping the memory up to 1GB, the Intel® 845MP-MZ Chipset seems to support it and rumors persist that it is possible, but my own attempts have failed using two Simple Tech 512GB DDR PC3200/2700/2100 SoDIMMs. But now I'm wondering if maybe the number of little RAM packs must be specific for it to work? Or maybe single sided versus double sided banks? Just fishing for an answer here ... Is there anyone out there who has actually got 1GB memory installed on their GRV550? So ... how the heck did you do it?? Thanks, sully
From: Ian Singer on 9 May 2007 17:39 knights-move wrote: > > Being the owner of a venerable Sony PCG GRV550 laptop (BIOS:R0203B1) I > am frequently intrigued by the idea of bumping the memory up to 1GB, > A quick google search says the max is 512MB consisting of two banks of 256MB Ian Singer -- ========================================================================= See my homepage at http://www.iansinger.com hosted on http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=10623894 All genealogy is stored in TMG from http://www.whollygenes.com Charts and searching using TNG from http://www.tngsitebuilding.com I am near Toronto Canada, can I tell where you are from your reply? =========================================================================
From: Jerry on 9 May 2007 23:00 "knights-move" <SullyKR(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1178744299.888200.12620(a)y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... Hello All, Being the owner of a venerable Sony PCG GRV550 laptop (BIOS:R0203B1) I am frequently intrigued by the idea of bumping the memory up to 1GB, the Intel� 845MP-MZ Chipset seems to support it and rumors persist that it is possible, but my own attempts have failed using two Simple Tech 512GB DDR PC3200/2700/2100 SoDIMMs. But now I'm wondering if maybe the number of little RAM packs must be specific for it to work? Or maybe single sided versus double sided banks? Just fishing for an answer here ... Is there anyone out there who has actually got 1GB memory installed on their GRV550? So ... how the heck did you do it?? Thanks, sully If there is such a thing as double sided 512mb sodimms it would probably do the trick. I've overcome similar problems on desktops where both the manufacturer and crucial.com state that the max memory is 256mb (2 128mb sticks) yet when I installed 2 double sided 256mb sticks the 512 worked just fine. Can't say for sure whether it would work or not in your case.
From: Barry Watzman on 9 May 2007 23:56
You are likely on the right track. While I am not familiar with this unit, it is often the case that attempts to use larger size memory modules sink or swim based on the internal architecture of the modules, or even of the chips on the modules. I'd check the Crucial web site or other sites that have model specific information. Jerry wrote: > "knights-move" <SullyKR(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1178744299.888200.12620(a)y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > Hello All, > > Being the owner of a venerable Sony PCG GRV550 laptop (BIOS:R0203B1) I > am frequently intrigued by the idea of bumping the memory up to 1GB, > the Intel� 845MP-MZ Chipset seems to support it and rumors persist > that it is possible, but my own attempts have failed using two Simple > Tech 512GB DDR PC3200/2700/2100 SoDIMMs. > > But now I'm wondering if maybe the number of little RAM packs must be > specific for it to work? Or maybe single sided versus double sided > banks? Just fishing for an answer here ... > > Is there anyone out there who has actually got 1GB memory installed on > their GRV550? > > So ... how the heck did you do it?? > > Thanks, > > sully > > If there is such a thing as double sided 512mb sodimms it would probably do > the trick. I've overcome similar problems on desktops where both the > manufacturer and crucial.com state that the max memory is 256mb (2 128mb > sticks) yet when I installed 2 double sided 256mb sticks the 512 worked just > fine. Can't say for sure whether it would work or not in your case. > > |