upgrade driver for 4gb of ram on hp pavillion dv9500

[STEVEDUNN46Lest]

i am trying to upgrade from 2gb to 4gb of ram.  the ram supplier told me i need to get driver updates from hp to make the 4gb ram work.  i just can not find where to do this on the hp site.  any help would be appreciated.

[OsbourneVernonL]

Sir your not making any sense at all.

first thing you have to do is explain in detail what your trying to exactly,  are your replacing Ram modules? or do you wish to add ram capacity not specified by your device in which case your look to replace a part or probably the entire board?

when you replay try to be as clear as possible.

[visruth]

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@STEVEDUNN46Lest wrote:

i am trying to upgrade from 2gb to 4gb of ram.  the ram supplier told me i need to get driver updates from hp to make the 4gb ram work.  i just can not find where to do this on the hp site.  any help would be appreciated.

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Hi

Which operating system, 32 or 64-bit are using?

What is the exact model name/product number?

Pavilion dv9500 series system supports:

 2 SODIMM slots 

Customer-accessible/upgradable 

 PC2-5300, 667-MHz, DDR2 

 Dual-channel support

 Supports up to 4096 MB of system memory
● 2048-MB total system memory (1024 MB × 2)
● 1024-MB total system memory (1024 MB × 1)

32 bit sytem can use max 3.5 GB.

64 bit system can use whole Ram which is supported by chipset (in your case 4 GB).

If You want to check where your Ram is used then:

Hit the Start button and in search box write Resource Monitor . Run it.

Choose Memory tab and You will see something like this:

In use shows how much memory currently is Your system using.

Available memory shows this what's left after giving rest for system and hardware needs.

Total memory shows this what system may use max.

Installed memory shows how much memory is now installed in Your notebook.

Hardware reserved shows how much memory is taken by Your hardware.

Your model will work without any problems with Windows 7 64 bit version. There is no need of any driver updates for installing upto 4GB of RAM in your system.

All drivers and informations on HP consumer support forum:

Windows 7 Upgrade Guide for dv6000/dv9000 models

thanks,

[STEVEDUNN46Lest]

I am replacing 2, 1 GB ram modules with 2 , 2 GB ram modules. When I installed the 2 GB modules the computer would not boot. The ram Suppliers told me I need to go to the hp website and down loaf new drivers for the new ram to work. . I can not find where to do that on the hp website.

[STEVEDUNN46Lest]

I am using windows vista home premium 32 bit operating system on a pavillion dv 9500 . I always just replaced the ram modules with no problems on other laptops. This time the laptop will not boot with the new upgrade ram. 2,--. 2 GB modules

[visruth]

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@STEVEDUNN46Lest wrote:
I am using windows vista home premium 32 bit operating system on a pavillion dv 9500 . I always just replaced the ram modules with no problems on other laptops. This time the laptop will not boot with the new upgrade ram. 2,--. 2 GB modules

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update bios from your product site & check again.

what is the configuration of RAM you bought? Confirm it with those given in above post.

Please go though this document & check:

Upgrading Memory (RAM)