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Integrated Ram

Started by brickboy, 2006-09-06T15:03:34-05:00 (Wednesday)

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brickboy

I was wondering if anyone has experience with integrated ram in their laptop.  I have a dell inspiron 1200 that came with a 256 stick of ram "integrated" into the mobo.  And no im not stupid and I do mean integrated as in its not user accessable and dell says you cant change it.  However, I havent taken apart the case so I dont know how "integrated" it truly is.  If anyone has successfully removed one of these so called un-removable sticks then please let me know how it went.  Also if anyone knows for a fact that the ram is un-removable then that would help too.  Thanks

bill corcoran

in my experience this means it is soldered onto the motherboard - i.e. no socket.  in such a case you pretty much need to be a surgeon with the soldering iron if you hope to replace it.  good luck.
-bill

Bryan

aye, every integrated piece of hardware I've come across was soldered to the motherboard.  
Bryan Grubaugh
Quickly aging alumni with too much time on his hands
Business Systems Analyst, Scripps Networks.

raptor

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brickboy

Thanks for the help guys.  Unfortunately it seems that to get the most out of my machine im going to have to take out the 512 stick i already bought and buy a 1 gig one.  And to top it off i wont ever be able to get the most out of ddr ram if i cant run in dual channel mode(cause im not going to have two 256 sticks).  Why does Dell %@#$#@ you like this?  Just to save a little space in the case?

raptor

Be carefull. Make sure your laptop will accept a gig of ram.  With an integrated 256 I would think it may have a total limit of one gig (depends on the MoBo).  And dell does that because its cheaper and they can deliver a lower priced product.
President of CAOS
Software Engineer NASA Nspires/Roses Grant