Lenovo Memory Upgrade

Yesterday I upgraded my memory on my laptop, I had to have

1GB of DDR2-668 PC2-5300 and I purchased a 2GB striip of DDR2-800 PC2-6400. I use applications that take up alot of system memory such as...

·      Photoshop

·      VMWare Workstation

·      Dreamweaver

Most laptops have a little compartment in the base of the laptop, however my laptop requires the palmrest to be removed. In some cases this can be a daunting task because the trackpad would have to be removed and sometimes other peripherals such as finger print readers.

This is very easy due to the fact I use a pointer on the keyboard and my laptop does not have any trackpads or anything so all that has to be removed is a plastic palmrest.

At the start of the upgrade you should remove the battery, this is to stop electric discharge. The battery is very easy to remove and only requires a couple of tabs to be slided to eject the battery.

Once the battery is moved I can now get started by removing the screws that hold the palmrest and start to replace my memory.

The palm rest is held by 4 long screws at the base of the laptop, these can be removed by using a small phillips screwdriver.

Once the screws are removed the palm rest will just just lift up, now that the memory modules are exposed I can remove the two 512MB modules and replace them with a 2GB module.

The DIMM slots are held in by a little catch, just slide the both catches and the memory will pop up. The memory now can be removed.

Now the module can be slided in and clicked back into place, the palm rest can be reinstalled and the battery can be reconnected... The laptop should now power up and display in the properties that they is 2GB.