[ltp] which ram for my thinkpad 240?

[Adam McLeod]

Hi,

For what its worth I went through the web forms on crucial.com and
bought a 256 meg dimm for an X20 Machine.  Its giving me 320megs of RAM
in my 2609-21U tp240.

>From my order recipt:
Qty: 1 CT240188 
Part Number: CT32M64S4W8E
Description: 256MB, 144-pin SODIMM Upgrade for a IBM ThinkPad X20 Series
(Type 2661) System

Adam.

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 17:03, Sascha Heid wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 16:27, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:12:15 +0100
> > Sascha Heid <Sascha_Heid@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all!
> > 
> > > i would like to upgrade the RAM of my Thinkpad 240 (not 240X) from 64MB
> > > to 192MB. I openend it to find out which kind of RAM i need but the
> > > onboard-RAMs did not reveal their secret to me and now i have to ask you
> > > this probably 1000 times asked question.
> > > I also heard about getting 256MB into it if you disable the onboard-RAM,
> > > but i dont wanna screw anything up and 192MB will be fine.
> > 
> > If you have a plain 240 (no X), you can upgrade the RAM to 320MB - you do
> > not need to disable the onboard RAM (not that you could do that without
> > some pretty advanced soldering skills anyhow... :) ).  If you have a 240X,
> > you're stuck with 192MB.
> > 
> > You need a 256MB PC100 "Low Density" SODIMM - ons with 8 chips per side
> > instead of 4.  I know PNY makes/made some suitable chips.  The sticker on
> > the one in my wife's 240 says "256MB SDR SODIMM E 32ZES (PO# 115605)".
> > 
> > There's only one problem with the 320MB upgrade in a 240 ... you lose the
> > ability to BIOS hibernate (suspend still works).  For me, it wasn't an
> > issue, as I have a good battery.
> > 
> > -- 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *  Charles Taylor <tomalek@mindspring.com>
> > *  Chemistry teacher, Linux enthusiast!
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *  Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Wow, thats great news, thank you!
> 
> If all 256MBs with 8 chips per side are Low-Density i might have already
> found one on ebay:
> http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3469239017&category=36845
> 
>