I have an IBM Thinkpad and am attempting to upgrade the amount of RAM that it has. I looked on the IBM website and it states that this model will support up to 1GB of RAM. I built my destop computer but the motherboard supported up to 4GB so i never had to deal with this problem. So if I was to find a stick of RAM that would fit into the laptop would BIOS recognize it and even if it doesn't would Microsoft Windows XP Pro which i have the laptop running on be able to detect the RAM itself instead of following BIOS. Furthermore does anybody know of a flash upgrade that might update bios to allow larger amounts of memory. While I am well versed with computers I am sure somebody else out there will have more knowledge on this kind of stuff. Any help is greatly appreciated.
2007-04-17 03:56:02 · 1 answers · asked by Ron 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
If they say it only supports 1 GB of RAM, then it will support only 1 GB of RAM no matter how much you put in. It's NOT a BIOS limitation. It's a CHIPSET limitation.
About a week ago we had a similar topic here. A guy has a Thinkpad. He put in 4 GB of RAM, but the system sees only 3 GB. Turns out his Thinkpad has a 3 GB RAM limit.
2007-04-17 04:08:18 · answer #1 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋