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ire
06-01-2008, 04:49 PM
I recently bought an HP Pavilion tx 1000 tablet PC and I love it, but....it only has 2 gigs of RAM and Vista is running really slow. The tablet has an AMD Turion 64x2 processor and the RAM has the following on the sticker on it:

1gb 2Rx8 PC2-5300S-555-12-EO

I want to swap the 2 1gig chips for 2 2gig chips, does that label mean its PC2-5300 ram? like in this link?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141297

Thanks in advance
valve bouncer
06-02-2008, 12:44 AM
www.crucial.com has a memory finder tool that'll tell you exactly what you need. Go to the memory manufacturer's various sites too should help.
ire
06-02-2008, 08:20 AM
www.crucial.com has a memory finder tool that'll tell you exactly what you need. Go to the memory manufacturer's various sites too should help.

That link is awesome! I'll run the scan first when I get home
eaterofdog
06-02-2008, 09:44 AM
it only has 2 gigs of RAM and Vista is running really slow.

Really slow on 2 gigs? What a tragic excuse for an OS.
BigMike
06-02-2008, 10:56 AM
Really slow on 2 gigs? What a tragic excuse for an OS.


no kidding!
H8R
06-02-2008, 11:28 AM
but....it only has 2 gigs of RAM

It's not the ram. It's the video card, and the ram is probably shared to it.

Turn off all the fvcking eye candy.
H8R
06-02-2008, 11:31 AM
See:

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Speed_Up_Windows_Vista

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2110595,00.asp

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/83ec0ffe-ee04-4d53-8b87-25d1f05c954e1033.mspx
ire
06-02-2008, 02:03 PM
See:

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Speed_Up_Windows_Vista

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2110595,00.asp

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/83ec0ffe-ee04-4d53-8b87-25d1f05c954e1033.mspx

I'll run through these tips tonight and see if that helps. Vista is a hog and I wish I could have gotten XP
H8R
06-02-2008, 02:15 PM
I looked up the specs:

Video

Graphics Processor / Vendor
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
Video Memory
Shared video memory (UMA)
Max Allocated RAM Size
128 MB

I have the desktop version of that video chip. Not a dog, but not the best thing to be running all the glitter in Vista either.

Read in your manual how to get into the BIOS at boot and make sure there is a full 128mb of ram allocated to the onboard vid chip.

Then turn off all the eye candy and go through the rest of the steps in those links. Run lean, run mean.


Unless you are doing video or massive image editing 2gb should treat you just fine.