[ale] [OT] Toshiba Satellite 2505 RAM

Mike Lockhart backpacker at hikers.net
Mon Mar 24 04:23:07 EST 2003


Did you check the BIOS settings?  I know that my IBM has some BIOS
settings for RAM, yours might also.  Just a thought. Hope it helps.

- mike

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 23:59, Joe wrote:
> Hi, folks.
> 
> Thanks again to the guys who pointed me at the Compaq tech-support
> site a couple of weeks ago when I was trying to install new RAM
> in my Armada laptop.
> 
> I have a similar problem today, with a Toshiba Satellite 2505 that I'm
> trying to upgrade for a friend. I can physically install the RAM,
> but the machine won't recognize it. I've tried two different SODIMMs,
> both known to work in another machine. Neither Win98 nor Linux (Toms)
> recognize the additional RAM; booting Linux with "mem=<real amount>"
> results in a kernel panic early in boot, so I'm guessing there's a DIP
> switch or something somewhere that I need to flip to tell it to use
> the new RAM. But Toshiba has not been considerate enough to make the
> service manual for this beastie available via WWW.
> 
> So, has anyone done a RAM upgrade on one of these things?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
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