RAM upgrade on old Laptop

nowuncme

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Nov 12, 2015
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Hi, my dad gave me an old Toshiba hp compaq dv9288ea,running Windows Vista 32bit with 2x1 gb ddr2
It was in a bit of a mess so I reinstalled Windows 7 64 bit and the drivers, but as I am novice I have now realised that 2gb of ram is not sufficient for 64bit Windows 7.

Is it possible to upgrade to 4gb of ram even tho the it says 2gb is the maximum capacity on the manufacturers website, is there a way?

 
Solution
if you still want to use & upgrade that laptop then I suggest installing a 60 to 120gig ssd drive into drive bay "a" with win7 32bit & a 7200 rpm hard drive of whatever size you want in drive bay "b".

nowuncme

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Nov 12, 2015
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Thanks for the reply

So I take it I should not be installing a 64 bit on this system but rather a 32bit version? As the 64 bit is using so much of the ram and cpu usage!

RAM usage at 90%
CPU usage at 50%
at idle with 64 bit win 7!
 

nowuncme

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Nov 12, 2015
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I know this laptop is quite old now and and low spec compared to my gaming rig but I would like to think its still ok for light use like internet browsing. It just feels sluggish and slow.
 

nowuncme

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Nov 12, 2015
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My dad said that laptop cost him £1200 when he bought it, but that must have been 10+ years ago. So it was probably a good machine back then but...well things age new stuff comes out all the time so its kind of hard to keep up with it all.

I will ask him if he wants to upgrade with ssd as I know they are fast as I have a 250gb samsung evo in my pc ( tho i did suggest to him before to just get a new laptop )