On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 3:39 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
Dell Core 2 Duo machine. Nobody is exactly sure how Dell did this (or why) but these machines and the 1501 series all have this limitation. Some say its a bios limitation that was removed with bios 2.6.3.
See http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19298222/1963901... which is specific to the above mentioned Dell 1501 machine.
The Inspiron 1501 is AMD based, and can be upgraded to 8GB RAM(I have 2, one with 4GB). Since the release of the Athlon64, the only AMD chipset I can recall not allowing 4GB or more was most of the 754 boards since there were single channel & DDR1. The 1501 is Socket S1G1, which is AM2 based and DDR2. It's a snappy machine with a Turion X2 TL-64. The 9400 is the same as the Inspiron 1704(US version of the 9400)/Precision M90/XPS 1710. Same Intel 945 chipset. Same limit Biggest reason for the 945's limit is that the Core Solo was 32bit and there was no need to add support for more than 4GB since most people used Windows XP anyway. The 965 and the P3x/G3x series removed the limit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets#Core.2FCore_2_mobile_ch... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org