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whoopinstik

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September 30th, 2012 14:00

Win7 M1730 8gb RAM?

Whats goin on guys. Im goin nuts. Ive been reading posts theyre 50/50 on whether or not the Dell XPS M1730 can take 8g of RAM. I installed Win7 Home Premium x64 on Friday. I updated all my drivers and all that jazz. Can anyone gimme a hand with this. The RAM i purchased was Patriot Signature 4GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Laptop Memory Model PSD24G8002S.

SYSTEM
Dell XPS M1730
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Motherboard: Dell Inc., 0KX412
Intel Core2 Duo T9500 2.6g
NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX SLI
4g RAM

  • wilks7

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    Posted September 30th, 2012 15:00

    going by the manual max is 4gb

    support.dell.com/.../index.htm

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    Posted October 8th, 2012 21:00

    Hi whoopinstik and wilks7,

    The Dell XPS M1730 has a maximum capacity of 8GB RAM (DDR2 667 MHz SODIMMs) on the system. I am sorry for the wrong information in the manual.

    I hope this helps.

    Please let me know in case of any queries

    Thanks and regards
    Harish R
    #iworkfordell

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    Posted October 10th, 2012 13:00

    I gave up trying. I shipped back my 2 4gig cards. I appreciate the help tho.