Comments on: How to upgrade memory in Dell Latitude D610

By: biser

biser — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:31:51 +0000

this lap-top carye no moore then a 2 GB RAM,1×1GB, 4200 Speed,ddr2 -its limit ot this mashine,buy it moore than enouhf

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:21:17 +0000

Thank you soooo much! You were a great help!. I’ll recommend you if anyone needs help.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:55:25 +0000

Hello again. Well well well. I was wrong. the chip in slotA was also x16 architecture but was PC2-3200. or in other words like to bios said 400Mghtz. The ram in slot A was hynix 512 2Rx16 PC-2 3200-333-12. Eight chips, four per side, and thus seen as dual channel. NOW i have 2Gb total matched sticks I bought a Fry’s Black Friday sale 2008 for cheap cheap. They are Patriot 5300 dual 667MHz Signature Line memory in a bubble pack with a green card inside. Fry’s sticker also says PSD21G667SK. Memory is only seen as 533MHz in bios. and I do not know if there will be considerable improvement. Seems to me XP cannot use efficiently more than 1gig. I will contact a poster on craigslist and get the Dell Win7 upgarde disk he’s offering for sale. Does Anyone Know…if I upgrade to Win7 will I then be able to install XP using my COA (its a full retail version) on another machine or do I lose that COA as the Basis for my Win7 upgrade?

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:28:46 +0000

Hi, I wish I’d tried to add more memory B4 the bios update toVer.06, oh well. Here’s my story: I have a 512 DDR2 from a laptop that had been drenched in beer, while on. Ouch!!! I salvaged the ram, HD, screen, and mobile P4. The rest is a gooey sticky loss. The 512 DDR2 looks exactly like the one shown in the tutorial. HOWEVER it is 2Rx 16 architecture. and guess what. my D610 wont boot with it in the bottom slot (B). Ladies and gentlemen THAT is the crucial factor in the equation. Low density ram versus high density ram. I may try to test the SODIMM in the top slot under the keyboard but I am 90% certain that this is the issue. Hey anyone got the bios password unlock trick? Flashing to new version wont clear a bios password. Thanx

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:49:42 +0000

Will the laptop work if you just install one 1G module and keep the original memory card in the other slot? Because, um, I tried that – replacing Slot A with 1G but keeping Slot B as it was; then the other way around – and my laptop wouldn’t even start up. It would sound as if it was going to start, but then, sort of like with Richard (104), would flash the number lock and the light two away from that (sorry – the lock with a lightning bolt in it?) simultaneously before turning itself off again. When I paired the original cards together again, everything went back to normal.

I did all that before finding this page, and thus before reading what you wrote about it never being a good idea to mix memory modules. Do you think that’s why my computer wouldn’t boot up, or could something else be wrong? If I buy a matching 1G, will that problem go away? Or should I give up on 1G altogether and try two modules with less memory? Please let me know if you have any advice at all – I know very little about computers (obviously), but I don’t have money to take my laptop to a professional. Thank you!

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:33:54 +0000

I bought 2 sticks of Crucial 1 Gig memory to replace the 2 sticks of 512 already in it. It worked fine with the 2 sticks of 512 but it would not boot with the 2 Gigs, no matter which stick was in which slot. It would boot with either 1 Gig stick in the top slot and the bottom slot empty. It would also boot with a 1 Gig in the top and a 512 in the bottom slot, therefore the bottom slot doesn’t appear to be bad. What gives, why can’t I use the 2 sticks for the full 2 Gigs?

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:31:44 +0000

Nathan,

Is it possible that my Dell Latitude D610 only has one memory slot? It came with 512 and I bought a 1gB stick thinking my computer would accommodate both, but there only appears to be one. Whether I open the back or remove the keyboard, I seem to be accessing the same slot.

Accessing the same slot? It doesn’t make any sense.

Whether I open the back or remove the keyboard, I seem to be accessing the same slot. When I remove all of the ram in sight, there is only room for one stick…?

One memory slot is located on the bottom and another one under the keyboard. It cannot be the same slot.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:40:03 +0000

Is it possible that my Dell Latitude D610 only has one memory slot? It came with 512 and I bought a 1gB stick thinking my computer would accommodate both, but there only appears to be one. Whether I open the back or remove the keyboard, I seem to be accessing the same slot. When I remove all of the ram in sight, there is only room for one stick…? I don’t know what’s up. Any insight?

By: Fafan

Fafan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:12:03 +0000

Dear all,i have 610 and spec prosesor 1,8.can i upgrade to max spec prosesor? and how to upgrade?thx

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:54:03 +0000

Your instructions and pics are clear and concise, very well done. I put a 1gb in the top and a 1gb in the bottom and could never get the full 2gb to boot. I noticed “Richard” in response 104 having the same difficulty. I finally left 1gb in the base and put the original 256 in the bottom and all is well. The question is whether Windows XP pro 32 bit can address the full 2gb. Thanks again.