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04-12-2017 10:04 AM
Looks like I have 2 2g boards. What can I get to max my memory?
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04-12-2017 03:13 PM - edited 04-12-2017 04:06 PM
Both answers are correct. Your laptop will accept and manage up to 8 gigs. That would be a pair of DDR2-800 laptop memory modules which cost roughly $100US. Regardless of the processor, if you have 32 bit software it cannot address any more than somewhere around 3.5 to 3.75 gigs of RAM. This is a mathematical limit of 32 bit software and is true of any 32 bit operating system...Windows, Linux, whatever. To have 8 gigs of RAM you would have to buy the expensive modules and do a complete clean installation of 64 bit Windows, which you can do because it is a 64 bit processor.
04-12-2017 10:12 AM
Hello @Don87,
Your PC will support upto 8GB of RAM Max.
See here : http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/HP---Compaq/pavilion-dv7-1132nr
http://www.memorystock.com/memory/HewlettPackardPavilionDV71132NR.html
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04-12-2017 03:02 PM
Thanks for getting back. Unfortionately I got two answers and the other one said I could install up to 8g of memory so I wanted to check back with you on that. One more thing: I checked the operating systemand I'm running a 32bit OS with a 64bit processor. Does that change anything?
04-12-2017 03:13 PM - edited 04-12-2017 04:06 PM
Both answers are correct. Your laptop will accept and manage up to 8 gigs. That would be a pair of DDR2-800 laptop memory modules which cost roughly $100US. Regardless of the processor, if you have 32 bit software it cannot address any more than somewhere around 3.5 to 3.75 gigs of RAM. This is a mathematical limit of 32 bit software and is true of any 32 bit operating system...Windows, Linux, whatever. To have 8 gigs of RAM you would have to buy the expensive modules and do a complete clean installation of 64 bit Windows, which you can do because it is a 64 bit processor.
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