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Posted by Pen on January 30, 2008, 5:41 pm
Please log in for more thread options alan.estrada.adler@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello, I know this is an old computer...I've been having problems with
> it since we bought it but somehow he hadn't sent it away.
>
> It's a Pentium III, originally with 256 MB of RAM but AMAZON.com gave
> us free 256 MB more.
>
> I always heard that Toshiba was a computer top maker, but since we got
> this 1805-S254 it started to turn off whenever it wanted, no matter it
> was plugged...they released a BIOS update a couple months later and it
> worked fine. The performance never amazed me though.
>
> then, a year ago the hard disk crashed. when the system was recovered
> using the backup CD I noticed that video was no longer playing
> smoothly, it stops every one or two seconds and I'm wondering if it's
> RAM related (this also happens when scrolling a page, it won't go
> smoothly). right-clicked on MY PC icon and checked properties, RAM was
> 496 MB instead of 512 MB, is that normal?
>
> Could it be that one of the RAM chips is damaged? how could I know
> what kind of RAM I can buy to update the system? I'd like to have 1 or
> 2 GB now in there at least.
>
> Please advice.
>
> thanks in advance.
The 16MB missing is probably used for the video, very common in low end
machines. The machine can't be updated as 2x256MB of PC100 memory is the
maximum.
http://www.4allmemory.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.memorySearch&model_id=24912
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