Inspiron 6000 - 4gb possible?

[cboath]

We've got an Inspiron 6000 at the office. The dell site wasn't very good for determining what type of ram it had. So, i threw sandra on it to see what was what.

According to Sandra, currently there are 2 sticks of 256mb DDR2 200 pin SODIMM 533mhz chips in it. Where it gets interesting is that sandra says the board will hold 4gb total (2x2gb). According to the crucial site it says that maxes out at 2gb. I haven't found any reports where people attempted to use 4gb. Who's right in this case? Sandra or Crucial?

Further spces state it's an Intel 915GM chipset.

Anyone know what's what with this? Or should I just up it to 2GB and be done with it?

 

[fuxxociety]

Number of Slots: 2

Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-5300,DDR2 PC2-4200 with a maximum of 1GB per slot.*
*Not to exceed manufacturer supported memory.


Maximum Memory: 2048MB
USB Support: 2.x Compliant
Standard Memory: 512MB removable
Slots: 2 (2 banks of 1)
Chipset: Intel 915GM


Hmm, after reading your post again, and actually paying attention, I see your question..

It's hard to see the difference between 2GB and 4GB, especially on anything that the I6000 will run. You're stuck with a 32 bit OS anyway, and that limits you to 3GB as well.

I think I'd stick with 2GB.

 

[Starrx05]

2GB Max. I just tried the other day. Put in 2x2GB OCZ 667Mhz and it immediately switched off after powerring on. I took one one out, and put in one 1GB from Crucial for 3GB, it turned on but BIOS only showed 2GB. Same thing happened if I leave only one 2GB in. So max per slot is 2GB, max total is 2GB. Intel confirms that here:

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915gm/index.htm

 

[telstar1]

I know this is somewhat of an old thread, but does anyone know if I need a bios upgrade to actually see 2gb of ram? I've got 2x1gb installed, but the laptop only sees 1gb.

 

[telstar1]

nevermind ..... turned out to be an improperly-seated SODIMM.