Old laptop question

**Sarcoma** · 07-04-2007, 01:44 AM

My wife has need of a laptop for her lab at UCSF (high-high-HIGH crime area) and dosent want to use our new fancy one. So I found her OOOLD preasrio 12xl300 in the closet and installed WinXP...

I want to upgrade the memory. The question is can I go over the 256MB maximum upgrade listed in the spec sheet (256+64)?

I know it seems silly but im looking for a throw-away lappy for her to use not my new fancy one. So a $50 investment will save my sanity.

Sarcoma

=Sarc= · 07-04-2007, 08:33 AM

http://www.memorystock.com/memory/Co...io12XL300.html

That might answer your question. The system has 64MB of non-removable memory. Looks like the motherboard cannot handle memory modules larger than 256MB in the upgrade slot.

**Sarcoma** · 07-04-2007, 06:55 PM

roger that Sarc.

I was hoping that someone would tell me that a little more mem would turn this POS into an awsome computing machine.

lol

sarcoma

**ednos** · 07-04-2007, 07:34 PM

I'll be happy to tell that to you, but you'll be disappointed when you spend all that money on RAM.

07-04-2007, 01:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
Sarcoma Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Age: 37 Posts: 575	Old laptop question My wife has need of a laptop for her lab at UCSF (high-high-HIGH crime area) and dosent want to use our new fancy one. So I found her OOOLD preasrio 12xl300 in the closet and installed WinXP... I want to upgrade the memory. The question is can I go over the 256MB maximum upgrade listed in the spec sheet (256+64)? I know it seems silly but im looking for a throw-away lappy for her to use not my new fancy one. So a $50 investment will save my sanity. Sarcoma __________________ Sarcoma.

07-04-2007, 08:33 AM	#2 (permalink)
=Sarc= Join Date: May 2003 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 4,712	Re: Old laptop question http://www.memorystock.com/memory/Co...io12XL300.html That might answer your question. The system has 64MB of non-removable memory. Looks like the motherboard cannot handle memory modules larger than 256MB in the upgrade slot. __________________ JO Guides & Tutorials Team Element - It's who you game with.

07-04-2007, 06:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
Sarcoma Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Age: 37 Posts: 575	Re: Old laptop question roger that Sarc. I was hoping that someone would tell me that a little more mem would turn this POS into an awsome computing machine. lol sarcoma __________________ Sarcoma.

07-04-2007, 07:34 PM	#4 (permalink)
ednos Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 3,939	Re: Old laptop question I'll be happy to tell that to you, but you'll be disappointed when you spend all that money on RAM. __________________ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ~ Bertrand Russell I have a tendency to key out three or four things and then let them battle for supremacy while I key, so there's a lot of backspacing as potential statements are slaughtered and eaten by the victors. ~ Magna Centipede

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