I have a HP Pavilion laptop quite old (2008) which I would like to increase the RAM. Ideally I would like to have 8Gb but I have no idea how to check if hardware could support this extension.
These are the details of the laptop:
laptop
description: Notebook
product: HP Pavilion dv6700 (KW091EA#ABE) (KW091EA#ABE)
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version: Rev 1
serial: CNF810542K
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 vsyscall32
configuration: boot=oem-specific chassis=notebook family=103C_5335KV sku=KW091EA#ABE uuid=434E4638-3130-3534-324B-001E682DB86A
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 30D0
vendor: Quanta
physical id: 0
version: 85.26
serial: None2
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
physical id: 0
version: F.30
date: 04/24/2008
size: 101KiB
capacity: 960KiB
capabilities: isa pci pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb agp smartbattery
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile TL60
slot: Socket S1
size: 800MHz
capacity: 2GHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 200MHz
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch lbrv vmmcall cpufreq
***-memory:0**
description: System memory
physical id: 3
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 4GiB
***-bank:0**
description: DIMM DDR2 Síncrono 667 MHz (1,5 ns)
physical: 0
slot: DIMM 1
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
***-bank:1**
description: DIMM DDR2 667 MHz (1,5 ns)
physical id: 1
slot: DIMM 2
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
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before it. Example:LANG=C sudo apt-get update
RunningLANG=C
as the whole command will temporarily set the language to English for all following commands in the current terminal window. (Always assuming that English is your fallback language, which usually is the default)uname -p
. If it says x86_64, that means you got 64 bit system, therefore can go above 4 GB. Otherwise, you have 32-bit, which cannot go over 4 GB. Next, I'd suggest opening the laptop and check if RAM is soldered or not ( most likely not ). Finally determine what type of ram you have and how many pins it has (eg I have DDR2, 200 pin). Search up online, and buy the ram you need