Upgrade Laptop RAM Memory

daz_free

Hi,

I wonder if any of you could help me.

I have a Toshiba Portege A100 laptop, it is painfully slow. I want to upgrade the RAM from 256MB to 512MB?

Am I able to do this on a laptop or is it normally just desktops which can be upgraded? Any info would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Darrell

Browntoa

it's reasonably easy, may involve taking it to bits a little

Edinburghlass_2

Easy enough as I did mine yesterday

nim_2

daz_free wrote:

Hi,
I have a Toshiba Portege A100 laptop, it is painfully slow. I want to upgrade the RAM from 256MB to 512MB?

Am I able to do this on a laptop or is it normally just desktops which can be upgraded? Any info would be much appreciated.

According to Crucial's system you can upgrade it - it has 2 slots, each taking up to a 1GB module. Generally upgrading laptop memory is fairly easy - remove a cover and carefully slot in the memory module. If it already has 2 modules in there (open it up and check before buying) then you would need to remove one of the old modules. Make sure you take care regarding static electricity whilst doing this - you can fry your whole machine if you are careless.

You can find Crucial, including their memory advisor, at http://www.crucial.com/uk/
They are pretty cheap, and very fast and reliable - in particular they take stuff back with no quibbling in my experience.

albertross_2

try going to https://www.crucial.com and putting you model number in..

Browntoa

Edinburghlass wrote:

Easy enough as I did mine yesterday

smarty pants !!

does it involve just turning the laptop upside down and clicking it into a spare slot ?? like this

http://www.fonerbooks.com/laptop_2.htm

Edinburghlass_2

Browntoa wrote:

smarty pants !!

does it involve just turning the laptop upside down and clicking it into a spare slot ?? like this

http://www.fonerbooks.com/laptop_2.htm

Yes, but I could have done with that photo yesterday and nearly pm'd you :j:j

Browntoa

lol......easy once you work it out then

daz_free

Thanks for the info guys. Have now ordered the memory. How can I reduce the risk of static energy? maybe stand on a piece of plastic? thinking back to year 9 Physics now, ha ha

CAT-THE-FIFTH

Try touching the metal part of the radiator.

Also make sure you are not wearing any synthetics and shoes with rubber soles.

It would be also good to put the laptop on a wooden table without a table cloth.

gaming_guy

anti static wristband?