do laptops have non removable memory?

binaryknight · 12 May 2007 at 15:00

as title bought a cheap broken laptop to take the memory and put in my sisters laptop.
the broken laptop is a toshiba equium a60 692 cant find the memory! have checked all the trapdoors on the base yes there is a connector with the letters ddr on it but nothing in the slot! so back to the question is it possible that some laptops have surface mounted memory?

Jokester · 12 May 2007 at 15:01

Was it sold as having RAM, maybe it was removed?

Think that laptop RAM is that SODIMM stuff you can get.

Jokester

binaryknight · 12 May 2007 at 15:14

was sold from a freind she took it to a pc shop in order to have her info from the hd recovered.
shes not capable of removing the memory her self and have know her for a long time trush her. can only speculate that the pc show was less than honest

or that the memory for this model is internal which i find unlikely there only is a single memory expansion slot i believe my sisters has two which is making me think that it 'may' be internal

ns400r · 12 May 2007 at 15:14

Looked under the keyboard?

ns400r · 12 May 2007 at 15:18

Toshiba spec on their site mentions 1 single DDR slot. Standard memory 256MB.

binaryknight · 12 May 2007 at 15:26

ns400r said:
Toshiba spec on their site mentions 1 single DDR slot. Standard memory 256MB.

yeah jsut tried the crucial memory advisor thing, lists the machine as having 256 or 512 non removable memory so id guess there is my answer bah! lesson learned!

Cyber-Mav · 12 May 2007 at 15:38

sure you could remove it with a screwdriver

binaryknight · 12 May 2007 at 15:51

Cyber-Mav said:
sure you could remove it with a screwdriver

do you think it would work afterwards

Mattus · 12 May 2007 at 17:27

It might have a standard stick of RAM inside, which you have to dismantle the laptop to get to? Some of them do this, particularly to save space on the small models.

Duke · 12 May 2007 at 17:28

It'll be under the keyboard.

binaryknight · 12 May 2007 at 17:43

Duke said:
It'll be under the keyboard.

dont think so the keyboard comes off with the lcd top section and only other circutry is for the leds etc, peeled back a thin layer of coper type material on the motherboard and it revealed surface mounted samsung chips

hybrid · 12 May 2007 at 19:39

Most of tosh's i have at work all have the memory at the back. If theres a slot on the back that says DDR, RAM or anything relating to that then thats where it should live. My guess is the shop would have taken it out to keep.