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laptop memory question
« on: October 10, 2005, 09:55:53 PM »
It's been a long while since I've upgraded anything, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. Is older laptop memory pretty interchangable? I was given an old fujitsu lifebook that has one slot for a 144 pin SODIMM chip that should be SDRAM, PC100 non-parity. The crucial and kingston chips are about $50 for 128MB. I can get ones on Ebay for $5, but these ones are only for specific models of other brands.
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Re: laptop memory question
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2005, 05:40:29 PM »
Is older laptop memory pretty interchangable? I was given an old fujitsu lifebook that has one slot for a 144 pin SODIMM chip that should be SDRAM, PC100 non-parity. The crucial and kingston chips are about $50 for 128MB. I can get ones on Ebay for $5, but these ones are only for specific models of other brands.

I might be wrong, but I don't think the $5 ebay stuff will work.  I was recently in the market for RAM for a Dell and crucial wanted to charge me:

256MB - $54
512MB - $83

Jeez.  Outrageous.  So I brought a bunch of old PC2100 chips home from work to try first (I had 6 different DIMMs to try) - all of them failed, the computer wouldn't boot with them in.  Looks like I'm forking over the dough - although you may want to try www.newegg.com to see if you can swing a better price. 

 

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