To improve the speed of my sluggish HP DV9000t under Windows Vista Ultimate, I decided to upgrade the RAM from 2 to 4 gigs via 2 x 2GB SODIMMs. Everything went smoothly and the BIOS detected 4 gigs. My first impression was that wow the extra 2 gigs did make a solid difference in Vista. When I went to System properties, however, I discovered that Windows was only showing 3070MB of memory. Huh? I thought the laptop wouldn't have the infamous 3GB maximum limit that 32 bit Windows have since I'm running Vista 64 bit Ultimate.
So I did some research and apparently there are DV9000t owners out there with the same problem. HP apparently blames it on the northbridge of the Intel 945M chipset. But oddly enough on the Intel website it says that the 945M chpset DOES support 4 Gigs of RAM max.
So I'm left here hoping that perhaps one day HP will release a BIOS that could eradicate this silly hardware-based 3GB memory addressing limit. I'm running the latest BIOS, version F.29, BTW....
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I own HP 9500 laptop. The configuration is as follows
Vista Homer Premium 32 bit,
2 GB RAM, 240 GB SATA HD,
NVIDIA GE FORCE 8600 GS,
CORE 2 DUO T7250 2GHz.
I am a serious gamer and found my system slow while running some of the latest games. I thought I should upgrade by RAM. I am assuming for a 32 bit OS I can upgrade my RAM upto 3 GB. Can you please let me know what is the compatible RAM for my laptop.
I found the following links that could match my laptop.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148087
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208323
This is the first time I am buying a RAM and hence need some guidance.
If the above links are not correct, let me know the links where I can buy from. also let me know the things i shud care while upgrading my RAM
Nischit- both should work fine are they are both DDR-2 667. You might want to check your existing RAM speed, though you can have a faster one in there and it'll slow down to match your existing RAM.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for posting the problem with upgrading your HP DV9000 to
4GB. I just tried to upgrade mine but the same thing was happening to me, only my 64 bit vista would not even boot up unless I had
3gb or less of memory. Thanks for posting stuff like this. It is so helpful to people like me. If you hear about HP upgrading the bios so that we can use 4 gb of memory can you please shoot me an email.
thanks,
Christian
cmlop@aol.com
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