Maximum memory for Vostro 1700

I'm assuming you are running 64 bit windows?

Note 2×4Gb RAM Modules may be very costly (approx $400) and probably not worthwhile at the moment.

i'm also running W7 X64. on vostro 1700 but have u tryed to put 8gb in the computer ?

If u did, did it work ?

to bad, but thanks.

let's hope sombody wil try it  :emotion-5:

Hi.

I never tried 8GB in my Vostro 1700.  I just settled for 4GB.  I never found out of 8GB would be recognized.

Maybe to late for you:

I'm running with 6GB under Windows 7 X64.

One of  problems I have:

some USB-Devices will not found the actual drivers on this maschine (Windows Phone with WP7)

And the integrated Webcam is not working (driver missing).

Wolfgang.

I am sorry I am writting here. I am kind of lost. What kind of external memories are supported by the Vostro 1700?

I had a problem trying to put one of them...

Thank you.

You mean external hard drive?

No, I am talking about the memories that are inserted at the right side of the VOSTRO 1700.

I need to ask something different. Dell is deleting my posts cause an e-mail appears as my user name, but they don´t tell me how to change it...Somebody know where to change my USER NAME directly?

You can get a 8GB set on ebay for $129.00 (i do not have the Vostro 17) but do have XPS 1730 running with 8GB on 32 bit Vista and have 6.75GB usable.

Hello:

I am talking about the memory cards that you can insert at the right side of the Vostro 1700. I would like to know what kind of memory cards are supported cause I tried to put one of them, but it didn't fit.

Thank you for your attention!

When  I upgraded my Vostro 1700 to 4 gb memory, my A.07 version bios and  Windows  64-bit 7 Ultimate recognized all of it, despite that fact that every reference I found said 3.5 gb was the limit for this bios.   So even tho I love the massive 17'' screen,  I just recently moved this 4 y.o. Vostro 1700  to my secondary laptop. It was simply too slow for the way I bounce between 20-30 open web pages and  3-7 open word documents.  

But .....  when I can find memory at  decent price I plan on doing an upgrade to 6-8 gb simply to test it out.  

Dell Vostro 1700, Intel Core Duo T 7250, Windows 7 Ultimate, Dual Fujitsu 120 GB drives, 2 x 2GB Hynix DDR2-800,  nVidia GeForce8600 M GT,  A.07 bios, 16GB Readyboost

Dell Precision m6600, Intel  i7 2760 QM, Windows 7 Professional, Crucial 256 GB SSD, Seagate Momentus 750 GB., 2 x 8GB Crucial PC3-10600, AMD Firepro M8900, A.06 Bios 

The 8 GB kit from crucial here is $179.99 or here is £136.79.

With regards to Windows 7 64 bit, the following driver set should be complete.

Utility

R143626 Dell Notebook Software

Chipset

R153997 Intel Chipset Driver

R168331 Ricoh Chipset Driver 

SATA

R200177 Intel Matrix Storage Manager Application

R154164 Intel Turbo Memory Driver

R167146 Intel Turbo Memory Application

Video

Communication

R150157 Conexant Modem Driver

R147123 Application

R148605

Network

Broadcom 440x 10/100 Ethernet

Bluetooth

R226750 Dell 355 Bluetooth Driver

Input

R165804 Touchpad Driver

Webcam

R173082 Webcam Driver

R230103 Dell Webcam Centre

Audio

R171786 Sigmatel Audio Driver

Application

R182249 Dell Quickset