Latitude D630 laptop: can it really deal with 8 GB of RAM?

Hello

Help a recent immigrant from China, who came with his son. Before his departure from China, the father of the son gives him a Latitude D630 (a very pretty, with the graphics chip of NVS135M). The OS (XP) is in Chinese, so it's a real adventure trying to put/clean the system. In any case, I have a few questions on the D630.

1. looks like the system is capable of running Vista 64 bit, but I think that's only if the system has 4 GB or more RAM installed. The current system has 2 GB installed (2 X1GB), and the owner wants to get a new OS for this system (which is my life a lot easier, because it will be at least in English). If she gets WIndows 7, should she get Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit? She is willing to spring for more RAM, so if WIndows 7 64 bit is the best way to go, advises him to get 1 X 4 gigabits, let the second slot open more RAM later. The Reference Dell manual says 8 GB of RAM capable; is that mean that it will take 8 GB of RAM, or that he may be able to take 8GB at some point in the future if they move to the update of the BIOS?

2. If someone has used 4 GB modules in this system, please let me know what modules have worked for you, and more importantly, who didn't.

Kostas

I can tell you from personal experience that Win 7 64 bit on a D630 (with T7500 processor) can manage the 6 GB of RAM quite well. He came with 2x2gb modules SODIMM and I replaced the bottom one (that easy) immediately with a 4 GB SODIMM.

I recently opened the top to see what would be involved in exchanging the T7500 for a T9500 and reach the top of the page SODIMM is easy enough that I put a 4GB in there, too. I can't not bad, so when I return for CPU swap, I'm going to do.

If you haven't already done so, you need really to update the bios to A17. I think it's back to A13 or so that enabled more than 4 GB, so uf which does not add focus RAM will do nothing, and some users have reported the failed to start. A17 will fix it.

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