laptop help please

[wolverinex]

Hi

i bought a packard bell i3 lappy a while back for home purposes.

my work one has since crashed and i'm thinking of using my home one at work
problem is that my home one only has 2gb of ram and i'm pretty sure this wont be enough as i work with pretty intensive data sets that will make even the best processor cringe with fear

1st question is can i actually upgrade the ram ? i want 8gb to deal with those data sets.
second Q how do i know if the mobo will support 2 * 4gb ddr ram ?
3rd Q how on earth will i install this, i can figure my way around a desktop but a laptop is totally foreign to me

i cant seem to find the exact model number but the lappy is the packard bell TS core i3 2310m
its has a nvidia gforce 610m 1gb and comes with 2gb of ddr3 ram, 320gb hdd etc

could find a link online

 

[wolverinex]

hmm mighty quite in here

anyone ? someone ?

 

[stricken]

Q1 : Yes
Q2 : Turn your laptop upside down and unscrew the latch that has a little memory chip symbol on it. There should also be one for the hard drive.

All laptop memory is the same except for the clock speed / DDR version...

So open it up and check if you have DDR2 or DDR3 and what clockspeed they run at... e.g. DDR3 1333Mhz.

 

[ponder]

Flip it over and look for the model number, while you got it flipped over take a picture and post it here.

 

[CataclysmZA]

Those Packards can take 8GB of RAM with two 4GB modules. They use DDR3-1333 RAM and you can mix and match modules. As for how to do it, most laptops adhere to similar methods of opening the bottom of the laptop for maintenance access. Here's a vid, skip to 00:48s because the presenter is irritating:

[video=youtube;yirNejnzbEM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yirNejnzbEM[/video]

If your one is the TS-13HR, it shares the same chassis as the TS-11 pictured below. The access compartment for the RAM and HDD should be that section at the top of the notebook secured by two Phillips-shape screws. Be careful not to strip them, the screws used in laptops are pretty weak.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

RAM upgrades will only partially upgrade your laptop. Remember that the CPU also plays a big role in what your laptop can handle.
What OS are you running? If it is Home Basic etc. you may also have issues if your company network is on a domain.

 

[Ry4n]

If you have windows 8 press Ctrl Alt Del and the will tell you how much DIMMs you have available if you google the laptop model number it should also tell you how many DIMMs and max memory support etc.

 

[InvisibleJim]

Also check that you have a 64-bit OS (in Windows 7 Start>> R-click Computer>>Properties. A 32-bit version of Windows can only address 3-something GB. You should probably also discussing using your own laptop with your IT department before you spend any money as they will probably have an opinion/policy about BYOD.