Board inside my Gateway M7305U laptop

[abdulrahimov]

Hello, I have a laptop from 2008. I am going to swap out the 2 RAM boards to speed it up.

My question doesn't concern the RAM though. When I opened up the back to investigate, I found another board that's by itself, next to a slot that's clearly ready for that board's partner.

I wish I could attach a photo, but apparently I can't. Does anybody know what this board sitting by itself is?

And if I install this board's partner in the empty slot next to it, will my computer work any better?

thanks much. I know without a photo that an answer might be hard to obtain.

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

According to the technical specification of your laptop it has 2 RAM slots and both slots should have RAM's in them. 1 is with 2GB and the other slot has 1 with 1GB that make's it 3GB. But if your laptop has an empty RAM slot then yes you can use it to add another RAM.

Here's the technical specification of your laptop.
http://panam.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2008/MSeries/M-7305u/M-7305usp3.shtml

 

[abdulrahimov]

thanks for your answer, yes, again, it's the inability to attach a photo that makes it difficult to explain what i see. i swapped out the 2 ram boards for 2 other ram boards that brought it up to 4 gb. i just don't know what the other board is. i do know it's connected with 2 wires to the hard drive. does that sound familiar to you?