What kind of RAM does this laptop have?

[stuman19]

Its a Compaq Presario 1700TA and he wants to upgrade the ram on it. Anyone know? Any info is cool.

*EDIT* It cuirrently has 256 of SDRAM, what speed could that be? (He found the manual, go figure)

 

[stuman19]

**BUMP**

 

[mechBgon]

What's the CPU in that laptop? It looks like they had both 100MHz-based and 133MHz-based models.

 

[InlineFive]

I dont know for sure but get PC133 SDRAM, if all is well it will work at 133Mhz and if not it will downclock to 100Mhz so no big damage.

-Por

 

[Rick014]

Dimm ID

Dimm ID is a free utility that checks your sdram and will let you know if it's pc100 or pc133

 

[Mday]

read your manual.

 

[dnuggett]

I would have said check on Crucial.com. They don't have your listed though....

 

[smittybg]

just get pc133 , make sure your compaq doesnt have any proprietary ram in it or your screwed

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: smittybg
just get pc133 , make sure your compaq doesnt have any proprietary ram in it or your screwed

er. laptops use SODIMM ram modules, IIRC (might be a different acronym)

 

[boyRacer]

Looks like theres two versions of it... one with PC100 and one with PC133... just go for PC133.

 

[stuman19]

Thanks everyone...it shall be done...