Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Nico de Jong" Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile V5535 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:03:50 +0100 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <96488a5a-36dc-470c-9330-8e34fd18762d@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net /crnSUb5qnwuvT++vA05vgFnJ2H1JVLjC6Ktv1U6xXgygkdhrJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:yCH40vkDHbzefz4qyIMjC+B83zg= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.laptops:2263 skrev i en meddelelse news:96488a5a-36dc-470c-9330-8e34fd18762d@googlegroups.com... > On Monday, November 24, 2014 10:59:38 AM UTC-5, Nico de Jong wrote: >> Hello All >> Said laptop is a bit slow, so I have upgrade the memory to 2x 2GB. >> What puzzles me, is that when I look in the system specifications, only >> about 750 MB is used. >> I cannot find anything relating to that in the BIOS settings >> Anyone any idea on what this could be, and how to make the whole memory >> available? >> /Nico > > What version of windows are you using, and is it 32 bit or 64 bit? 32 bit > versions of the OS may be limited in how much memory they use. > > I don't know what you mean by slow - compared to what, under what > conditions and whether the machine has always been that slow. Your laptop > is not built for speed, and RAM probably won't change that. > > http://www.notebookcheck.net/Fujitsu-Siemens-Esprimo-Mobile-V5535.9149.0.html I'm (well, my wife) using Windows Vista, 32 bit. The reason I bought more memory, was because the system is constantly swapping pages in and out, so I hoped more memory would help. However, there is more to it. I replaced the original memory, and I still have only 750 MB.... /Nico