Re: Satellite A300 - RAM only works in a memory

Hi all

I have a toshiba a300 that I'm sorting for a friend.
Its a bit slower, so I upgraded from 1 GB ram to 4 GB I know, that is the maximum that can take the system.

Now, the system recognizes the two RAM sticks, however, when I go to the new installation of windows 7 it wont let me.
So have used UBCD (ultimate boot cd) memory Tester and the laptop stops.
So, I tried with 1 stick of 2 GB it works in one slot but not the other.

If I have to do a bios update, or is it a motherboard problem.

Hello

The laptop seems to be equipped with a Chipset Mobile Intel® GL960 Express and this chipset support 2 GB RAM max.
So you can use single module of RAM 2 GB or 2 x 1 GB RAM

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