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eekfonky
October 11th, 2008, 11:41 PM
Hello

I really want to upgrade my RAM from 512MB to as much as possible. I have 2 RAM slots, but I do not know the Speed, name, type or capacity of the motherboard.

Please help

phidia
October 12th, 2008, 12:08 AM
There are websites out there that will test your system and tell you what type of ram you need.
This (http://www.4allmemory.com/) is one site like that but there are several others.

Note: The auto checker requires windows unfortunately but there are other methods at that site for determining your ram type.

You can also open a terminal and enter
sudo lshw that may give you the info you want too, or enough info to use the other methods the memory seller has.

eekfonky
October 12th, 2008, 12:30 AM
description: Desktop Computer
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vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
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logical name: scsi0
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description: ATA Disk
product: ExcelStor Techno
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logical name: /dev/sda
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description: EXT3 volume
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physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
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vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
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bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
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vendor: NXP
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version: FAT32
serial: 1234-5678
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capacity: 3862MiB
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configuration: FATs=1 filesystem=fat label=MUVO T200 mount.fstype=vfat mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,fm ask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso88 59-1,shortname=mixed,utf8 state=mounted
Any suggestions or is there a website that doesn't require windows that can help?

phidia
October 13th, 2008, 02:34 PM
-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1b
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 512MiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
physical id: 0
slot: A0
size: 256MiB
width: 64 bits
*-bank:1
description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
physical id: 1
slot: A1
size: 256MiB
width: 64 bits
*-bank:2
description: DIMM [empty]
physical id: 2
slot: A2
*-bank:3
description: DIMM [empty]
physical id: 3
slot: A3

That is your memory unfortunatey it doesn't give the number of pins.

If you know the make and model of your computer you can plug those parameters into the form at the site I linked previously.

eekfonky
October 13th, 2008, 02:45 PM
short of opening up and trying to find out I don't know what make it is, sorry