Recent content by vfrickey

I've loaded the latest drivers from Dell, and unfortunately, no help... it's a pity, because the video card on this thing screams... the bottleneck is insufficient RAM on the mobo. On the very rare occasions when it feels like seeing both sticks at once, the performance improvement's stellar...

thanks for your answers, Hang the 9. I know where to get the RAM (see my original post). I just wanted to know if anyone had a quick answer on why it only sees DIMM A or DIMM B sockets, but not BOTH at the same time. My guess is a bad motherboard. Nothing much to do about that...

"No" to your questions, and thanks - I'll check to see what the laptop requires. However, I've ruled out the "bad second slot" issue, it doesn't matter which slot I populate, it'll just see one stick of RAM. Both sticks I have work equally well in either slot. But you have a good point, I...

When I got my Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop, it had a single 512 Mb DIMM installed, even though the motherboard has two DIMM sockets. It runs fine with just one DIMM installed. Fine, I thought, I'll just upgrade with a pair of matched DIMM (to eliminate any bad juju with different RAM refresh...