How to Increase Your Laptop's RAM

Generally today, people use a laptop for not only doing mere word-processing or internet surfing. Rather, they use it for many other activities like, for playing high end games, for designing websites, as a virtual studio to record stuffs or doing other such things were the speed and performance of the machine matters. Therefore, you must upgrade your machines memory module to get better performance results. You can consider following few steps while enhancing your portable machine's memory.

1. First, you need to know the type of memory that the machine is using. Consult your owner's manual in order to get the idea. As of now, DDR2 & 3 is the type that most machine use. Make sure you brought the right type memory that has the processing speed compatible with the current ones otherwise, it will not work.

2. Consult your laptop's user guide to determine the total amount of memory that your machine can handle. Stuffing your machine with lots of slots will not help until it is recommendable and compatible. You also need to understand the fact that buying a speedy RAM will not affect your machines performance at all if it is not compatible with your machines configuration.

3. To install the RAM inside your machine, first switch it off and remove all the wired connection attached to it like, speakers, headphones, sub mouse etc. Now you need to open the back cover so that you have an easy access inside the machine. Go through the instruction manual that came along with the memory in order to understand where the memory is to be installed. In today's system board, it is generally installed on DIMM or SIMM modules or SOIDMM modules in notebooks.

4. Cautiously push the memory stick inside the dedicated slots to extent that it fits properly on the board. After inserting the memory stick, you are done but need to re-check things a little to ensure that there is no loose connection on board.

Ashikur Rahaman is a professional hardware consultant and the owner of ABC hardware consultancy firm in Phoenix, Arizona. He is in this profession for last 15 years and has been awarded many times for his remarkable contribution in hardware consultancy sector. He also writes for many premier tech-mags and considered as one of the pioneer in this field. His basic guides on several computer hardware trouble shooting, such as RAM replacements, motherboard guides and laptop functionality improvements have won the hearts of many computer hardware enthusiasts.