Any laptop, as well as a computer, has slots for RAM sticks. It is popularly called "operative". Determining the size of the installed RAM is very easy. If there is not enough RAM, the user buys one or two rails in order to install them in his car. Installing RAM in the case of the system unit is much easier than in the case of a laptop. Read on to learn how to properly add a memory stick to a free slot in your laptop.
Necessary
ASUS laptop, RAM bar
Instructions
Step 1
To determine the size of your laptop's RAM, just right-click on the "My Computer" icon, and in the window that opens, you can see the system configuration. If your system has 512 MB of RAM, and a little less is displayed, then part of the memory is taken by your video card, most likely it is built into the motherboard.
Step 2
To get to the motherboard, and in particular to the RAM slots of the ASUS laptop, you need to remove the keyboard. Slide the top panel to the left, it will come out of the grooves, then it can be completely removed. Now the keyboard has become free. Fold it back with paper or cloth underneath it.
Step 3
Under the keyboard, you need to unscrew the two bolts that hold the metal shield over the RAM slots. Below the screen, you will see the slots you are looking for. One of them will have one bar. You can add a second plank. The size of the memory size of the new strip does not matter. It is much more important to know that they are of the same type: DDR, DDR2, DIMM, etc.
Step 4
The goal is achieved, it remains to collect everything that you have disassembled. It is necessary to assemble in the reverse order. After completing the assembly of the laptop, turn it on. After loading the operating system, right-click on the "My Computer" icon. Look at the value at the very bottom line, it should increase. If this happened, you did everything right.
