Inspiron 1000 RAM Upgrade

[rupendr...@gmail.com]

Can anyone please help me with the following:
I have an Inspiron 1000 with 256 MB of RAM. As mentioned in the posts
above the laptop runs very slow due to that. Now one of my friends has
an extra 512 MB DDR RAM chip. I tried it and I just could not believe
myself. It was lightning fast. I have decided to go for an upgrade. Now
the only thing that is stopping me is the fact that I have read at many
websites that this model can have a maximum memory of 512 MB.
I don't understand that. If the maximum that it can take is 512 how was
it running on (256 +512) = 768 MB.

I even confirmed that with msinfo32 and it said I had 768 MB of RAM.
If I put on this 512 MB of memory could it cause any problems with the
laptop.

Below are some links to some websites and previous discussions that
involved this issue.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.sys.pc-clone.dell/browse_thread/thread/61324104dc4f1f55/44a3f53c53d70496?q=%22inspiron+1000%22+RAM+upgrade&rnum=3&hl=en#44a3f53c53d70496
http://www.memoryx.net/dein10me.html
http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=Dell%2BInspiron&mfr=Dell&cat=RAM&model=Inspiron+1000+Series&submit=Go

Please help

Please help.

[S.Sengupta]

Yes,I have also seen such incidents in Dell forum.
http://tinyurl.com/8pgrw
But didn't find any concrete answer.Still you may discuss the same in
Dell community forum or,contact Dell-http://support.dell.com/

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

[Clayton]

Maximum memory for this notebook is 512MB
System may ship with DDR266 or DDR333
2 X 256MB is the only combination that can be used

"S.Sengupta" <sseng...@msn.com> wrote in message
news:uaOGxSsg...@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

[S.Sengupta]

That's a known thing.See the OP-it was a case of more than 512mb RAM.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

[rupendr...@gmail.com]

I had also posted my question on another forum.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=4093

Do you agree with them?

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[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You'll need to contact Dell support and ask them.
Was your Dell showing 768MB RAM utilized or did
it just recognise a portion (512MB)? Right-click on
My Computer and look under "Computer".

According to www.crucial.com, your particular Dell PC
has a maximum design capacity of 512MB RAM.

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