Comments on: Dell Inspiron 1501 Hardware Upgrade

By: Sekhar Aripaka

Sekhar Aripaka — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:28:22 +0000

You can call me just Sekhar and sorry for the delay in this response. Here is the list of mandatory drivers that you will need after OS installation. But keep in mind that these are specific for Inspiron 1501; you may lookup for similar drivers for ur model. I’ve to squeze this to fit in max limit allowed here.. Audio(R171789.exe) BIOS (Win1501263.EXE) Communications(R114200.EXE, R142668.EXE), Network(R149798.EXE, R150593.EXE,R151519.EXE), System Utils(R134838.EXE), Video(R168684.EXE) ?

By: pablotapiar82

pablotapiar82 — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:06:16 +0000

Thank? U man.

By: bongchoof

bongchoof — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:32:57 +0000

How much did that ram cost you? Can you link me to some? compatible ram?

By: Sekhar Aripaka

Sekhar Aripaka — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:19:23 +0000

4GB RAM cost me $45. You may search in amazon.com for your model. This comment section is not letting me to paste? the web links!!

By: bongchoof

bongchoof — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:40:50 +0000

Thanks for the response. I’ll? look into it.

By: nickyjam770

nickyjam770 — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:21:17 +0000

Dell inspiron 1501 will work with up to 2 GB RAM….the other 2GB will be useless…..nice video? though

By: Sekhar Aripaka

Sekhar Aripaka — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:20:59 +0000

Good point!! I had the same impression until I added 4GB, in fact I covered that in the video, if you take a look till the end. After adding 4GB, I could see 2.62 GB in system properties and you may know that remaining is reserved for system itself. But yes it reserved 1.38GB for system which is very high. However point is that? it did recognize 4GB RAM.

By: nickyjam770

nickyjam770 — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:10:35 +0000

It really DOES recognize? it, but it doesn’t utilize it.

By: lancerooke

lancerooke — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 13:11:05 +0000

That’s actually not true. Dell says it “supports” a maximum? of 2 GB RAM because they simply did not test it with more. I know for a fact that the machine can take 4 GB and it was confirmed by numerous sources that it will actually take 8 GB! So if you upgrade the CPU well past what the machine “supports” (such as AMD Phenom II quadcore) you should see that it works well (despite what Dell tells you).

By: lancerooke

lancerooke — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 13:03:28 +0000

Not? true.