Putting 4GB into my laptop?

[Gangster]

hey guys

I've got my laptop right, and as standard it comes pre-installed with 2GB.

I purchased 4GB and attempted to put it into my laptop - but it doesn't boot. On the POST it just counts up some sort of amount of memory and just freezes.

I search on my laptops chipset, and there are places which say it can handle 4GB of ram (which is why I purchased it).

Would it be to do with the fact that I have a 32-bit vista installed? I wouldnt think so because its well before it 'interacts' with the O/S and I thought that it would just show up 3GB anyway (as the 32bit cant address the 4GB etc)

does anyone have any ideas? thanks

 

[Gangster]

Whats the maximum amount of RAM each slot can handle, are you exceeding this?

Not sure (see below)

Specs?

My lappy is a Toshiba P200-1ED - specs state 2GB maximum, but i've researched on the chipset and it says 4GB maximum??

 

[Gangster]

From Crucial, I've looked up your laptop and it seems that it will only support 1GB of RAM per slot.

Crucial claims its the Intel943GML Chipset, is this correct?

hey

No - on cpu-z my laptop states " GM965 Chipset "

thanks for you help.