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Memory upgrade on a Gateway laptop MT6728
I recently purchase two 2 Gig cards to replace the 1 Gig cards in a gateway MT6728 laptop.
I tried a 1st set and started to boot windows vista once and once only and then locked up. After that I could not get past the bios bootup I was never able to get to window vista booting. I ordered another set of 2 gig memory chips and it does the same thing. I can not get past the bios boot up.The 2 nd set never made one attempt past the bios. I did use PC5300 memory chips. What could I do to get 4 gig on this laptop gateway MT6728? |
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Hi retired_techiew welcome to Cyber Tech Help.
That should be PC2-5300 and DDR2 and non-ECC memory. Is it? For maximum memory see if the Crucial System Scanner tool can give you the maximum memory capability. |
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Yes the memory modules were PC 5300. non ecc.
I tried some more experiments as follows: At first I put in the (2) 2 gig memory modules and my machine failed to go to the boot disk. When I put back the (2) 1 gig memory modules my machine worked again. Then I took out both of the 1 gig modules and put only (1) 2 gig module in. My machine appear to be happy again, it booted. Then I shutdown an put a 1 gig memory module in the empty slot. The machine again booted and now it showed me it had 3 gig. I ran the x86 mem test for several hours. I ran at least 10 complete passes with no errors. So I would say I am satisfied with the 3 gigs and leave it at that. Thanks |
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Onward...good job on that btw. |
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