Laptop DDR/DDRII compatibility

Hello,

I have an Asus A3E 5015P laptop (specs). As you can see it runs on Intel's Centrino platform, on the Intel 915GM Express chipset (specs). As you might know, Intel says this chipset is compatible with up to 2GB of DDRII-533.

The laptop currently has 512 MB of DDR ram, which I would like to extend to 2GB of DDRII RAM.

I've opened my laptop already, and I see that DDR and DDRII SO-DIMMs seem to have the little crop in the middle of the rows of pins placed differently, making a DDR slot incompatible with a DDRII stick. But I could chop off the little plastic discriminator on the slot (I don't care about voiding the waranty, it's over already anyway...).

My question is the following: If I chop off the discriminator so that DDRII SO-DIMMs fit inside the slot, will I be able to plug DDRII memory in my laptop since the Intel chipset supporta both DDR and DDRII memory , or are there any other components that will cause problems (if so, I'd be curious to know which)?

Thanks for your help

u cant do that. dont be a fool.

DDR is compleatly different to DDR2. in the same way u cant expect to chop one of the 940 socket CPU's pins to make it a 939. what do u NEED ddr2 anyhow??

You could still get a 1GB DDR2 SODIM and install that unless you can find a 2GB stick (I havent seen them but I havent searched that hard either lol)

Bad idea; don't do it. You'll probably end up frying your laptop. Just upgrade using DDR RAM; there's little or no performance benefit from DDR2.

The design of the notebok. It would be silly (because of the extra cost) to design two duplicate memory systems, one for DDR and one for DDR2.