Hi, picked up an old Dell Latitude D410 today. It has DDR slot A hidden under the keyboard and DDR slot B easily accessed underneath with a cover. I have the manual but can't quite work out if I need to add memory in pairs. It takes DDR2.
Any advice from anyone with experience of this laptop would be great.
Thanks
Louis
It is desirable to add memory modules in pairs to work in dual-channel mode. But in theory you can do with one 2gb module if you don't need this mode
At the moment I just want to switch it on! It has a 1GB DIMM in Slot A.
ldare1000 wrote on 2023-10-26, 18:51:Hi, picked up an old Dell Latitude D410 today. It has DDR slot A hidden under the keyboard and DDR slot B easily accessed underneath with a cover. I have the manual but can't quite work out if I need to add memory in pairs. It takes DDR2.
Any advice from anyone with experience of this laptop would be great.
I had a D610 for years; I think it's the same thing as the D410 just a bigger screen. My recollection is that I had ordered the laptop with 256 megs, which was under the keyboard, and I added another... gig?... in the easily accessible slot behind, and I ran it for years like that, all the way until RAM got really cheap and it got old enough I wasn't scared of disassembling the keyboard and Vista and... upgraded it to 2 gigs.
I'm trying to remember if the i915 chipset even supports any kind of dual-channel memory. If it did, it certainly didn't worry me at the time...
VivienM wrote on 2023-10-26, 21:44:ldare1000 wrote on 2023-10-26, 18:51:Hi, picked up an old Dell Latitude D410 today. It has DDR slot A hidden under the keyboard and DDR slot B easily accessed underneath with a cover. I have the manual but can't quite work out if I need to add memory in pairs. It takes DDR2.
Any advice from anyone with experience of this laptop would be great.
I had a D610 for years; I think it's the same thing as the D410 just a bigger screen. My recollection is that I had ordered the laptop with 256 megs, which was under the keyboard, and I added another... gig?... in the easily accessible slot behind, and I ran it for years like that, all the way until RAM got really cheap and it got old enough I wasn't scared of disassembling the keyboard and Vista and... upgraded it to 2 gigs.
I'm trying to remember if the i915 chipset even supports any kind of dual-channel memory. If it did, it certainly didn't worry me at the time...
Thanks, really helpful