Maximum RAM reached - How to upgrade?

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Kerberos said:
I have a Sony VAIO laptop, and I have reached the maximum RAM. I can't
add more.
I have free PCMCIA slots, I have a free USB entry, and also a free
i.Link (Firewire) plug.
Is there a way that I could add more RAM using another technology (for
instance through a 512MB USB key, or a Firewire device that I never
heard of, that could be used a a RAM module)?
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Nope,all the other interfaces in the computer have slower speeds and
can't be used as RAM.How much is the max in your case?
 
Any RAM device that you add e.g. a USB key would have much slower access than system RAM. Any USB device is limited by the speed of the USB port, and flash memory is very slow as RAM goes anyway.
 
I have a Sony VAIO laptop, and I have reached the maximum RAM. I can't add
more.
I have free PCMCIA slots, I have a free USB entry, and also a free i.Link
(Firewire) plug.
Is there a way that I could add more RAM using another technology (for
instance through a 512MB USB key, or a Firewire device that I never heard
of, that could be used a a RAM module)?
Thanks,
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You can certainly plug in a USB memory device and have more
memory, but it's not going to be viable as a substitute for
main system memory, rather additional removable storage like
a hard drive.
 
Kerberos said:
It is 256MB (bought the computer in 2000)
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256MB sounds awfully low for a maximum supported ram spec'. Did you fill the
slots or actually reach the max possible ram? Check your documentation.
 
It's what is written in the documentation. Back in 2000 it was the best
computer of the store. All other computers had less memory.
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Is it possible the manual meant that 256MB was the maximum
memory possible per SODIMM slot, not the max total memory?
Or does it only have one slot?
 
Have you tried crucial.com to and checked your model
against their memory selector? That should give the definitive
answer.
 
Kerberos:


http://dougpile.com/computer/vaio/memory.html
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LOL,
"There have been tales of people both succeeding and failing
at adding more memory with various operating systems, but
Sony only promises...."

So they pretty much omitted the only useful info, exact
what/when it'd work.

If anyone got it to work, odds are pretty good everyone can,
given same motherboard revision or newer and same memory
tech, configuration logically. Then again, only PC100
memory and some intel chipset... shame the picture wasn't a
little higher res so we could see which chipset.
 
I have a Sony VAIO laptop, and I have reached the maximum RAM. I can't add
more.
I have free PCMCIA slots, I have a free USB entry, and also a free i.Link
(Firewire) plug.
Is there a way that I could add more RAM using another technology (for
instance through a 512MB USB key, or a Firewire device that I never heard
of, that could be used a a RAM module)?
Thanks,
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Time for a new laptop.
 
kony:
Is it possible the manual meant that 256MB was the maximum
memory possible per SODIMM slot, not the max total memory?
Or does it only have one slot?
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The VAIOs from a few years back were limited to 256MB total. Don't know
why, it was marginal then.
 
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