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Laptop RAM - Need some suggestions

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hotshot05 Original post #1
Jul 19, 2013 at 8:02 PM
This is the present configuration of my laptop (HWInfo32) -

*i.imgur.com/LSUFnCf.jpg

I will be buying a 2GB laptop RAM module.

My hard disk drive had gone bust some 2 years ago. The guy who repaired it had made a strange comment - "there seems to be something wrong with the RAM. The machine feels sluggish due to some problem with the RAM".
I tested my RAM using the program that comes with the Linux Distros. It detected no problem.

Windows 7 and now even Windows XP seems slow on this laptop.
Is there anything really wrong with the RAM? Or was he bluffing?

Should I throw away the present RAM and install a single 2GB RAM in its place? And maybe use a single RAM but of faster clock speed. Does the RAM clock frequency produce too much of a difference?

When I go to buy the RAM module, what should I say to the shopkeeper?
Give me a "400MHz DDR2 laptop RAM" or "PC2-6400 DDR2 laptop RAM"?
Chaitanya
Jul 19, 2013 at 8:21 PM
Windows 7 and now even Windows XP seems slow on this laptop.
Is there anything really wrong with the RAM? Or was he bluffing?

May be he is bluffing.
Sluggish?? try Defraggler to defragment

then also test RAM using Memtest.
H
Jul 20, 2013 at 2:30 AM
May be he is bluffing.
Sluggish?? try Defraggler to defragment

then also test RAM using Memtest.


Will do that.

Can you tell me what should I say when I go to buy the RAM?
DDR2 PC2 6400 Laptop RAM or something else?