Hello,

I have a dell E1505 with a T5500 Intel Core 2 processor. I right now have 1 GB RAM installed.

I was looking to  upgrade my RAM and tried to find out the maximum I can fit in. When I go to the dell support website and ask it to perform a scan of my hardware it returns Intel 945 Express Chipset Family, but does not tell me exactly which chipset it is, 945GM or GME or GMS etc.

Now, from the scan page, I ask it to use the hardware config found to look for upgrades, it immediately goes to a page saying


"At this time, we can only narrow your system down to one of the systems listed below. Please select your system from this list. We apologize for the inconvenience"

It mentions E1505 and 6400, I click on them and the maximum RAM I am "allowed" to buy is 2GB.


(Something rather strange because at least I should be allowed to buy whatever I want)


Which probably is because my system's chipset and processor were reconfigured from the factor standard model of E1505 which I think was a T2500.


Anyhow, I tried using the intel chipset identification and again got the the same result in the identification scan, with only the 945 family mentioned.


I finally ripped open laptop, gave it a maintenance cleanup and also looked for the identification mark.


I found a code 0682945GM. But on the next line on the chip it said SL8Z2. Now I am confused if I am supposed to read the two together.


Because if I do, the chipset can also be GMS.


Can anyone shed some light on this.


I want to be perfectly sure that I can use 4GB Ram before buying it.


Thanks


Aditya