Dell XPS L421x :: Hardware Reserved Memory
Apr 16, 2013
I got the l421x 8gig ram laptop and had to install win 7 32bit on it because of work related software. What annoys me is that according to windows I only have 2.4gig ram total. The resource monitor tells me that a whopping 5.7 gig is hardware reserved memory.
Now when I boot I have about 800mb available memory and maybe 100 free.how I reduce reserved memory that the intel graphics use? Other laptops have bios settings for this(e.g my private asus ux32vd) but not this xps. I am fully aware that 8gigs will not be available on a 32bit os - that is not the issue. I'd assume this laptop should have about 3-3.5gig ram total after a fresh boot. But why only 2.4gig ?
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Feb 15, 2013
I have a new xps l421x, . Can I add a wwan card with gps to this internally, if so what do I need to purchase...
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May 14, 2013
My laptop is plugged in and not charging. I have run a bios and it says that the battery is a non dell battery (even though i have not tampered with the computer at all). I have only had the computer for 5 months. If the battery failed after 2 years yeah that might be acceptable but only 5 months?!?!?! I now cannot use it without plugging it in.
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Feb 18, 2013
I've just opend my new XPS-L421X today. And I dont think there is a SSD Drive on it (there should be 32 gb ish). I can hear the harddrive running all the time. And it dosen't start up really quick/smooth.I can't find any SSD drive In device manager, it dosent show up under the Disk Drives category. Another thing. The harddrive should be 500 gb. I know you never get the hole 500 gb, but mine has only 415 gb out of the box (whit installed Windows). Is that normal?
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May 1, 2013
I recently received my new XPS 14 (L421x) ultrabook. Â Out of the box, this machine has a 500Gb C: drive labeled "OS" and a second 110Gb SSD D: drive labeled "Data". Â Windows 8 is installed on the C: drive. Â There is absolutely nothing on the D: drive.
Does this sound right? Â I would have thought that you would want to have the OS on the SSD and boot from that (much faster?) drive.
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Mar 30, 2013
This is the second time I have had this issue. I have already had the motherboard and power supply/cable replaced and it worked for awhile. Here is the issue.
- Occasionally after powering down, the next time I try to power up, the laptop does nothing but show the power light on. No Dell screen, no back lights on the keyboard, nothing else. I press and hold the power button down and after 5 seconds it shuts the light off. Â I would then try it again with the same result. I let the battery completely drain; plug the power cord back in and after about 5 minutes of charging, try it again. This seemed to work until one day it did not. Then I had the motherboard and power supply replaced and all seemed well. Â Now, 6-8 weeks later I have the same problem again. Â A new L421X purchased in December 2012 with 512GB SSD running Windows 8 64 bit. I use this for business and am about to throw it out the window. Â
Currently, I have tried the power up, drain power trick with no results. It is dead with all my business info on the drive. Â I am about to dump Dell and switch to HP. Â
Anything I can do short of a whole new machine?
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Feb 28, 2013
After updating the touchpad drivers to 16.3.7.0 A03, there has been an issue with two-finger scrolling.
When I lift my fingers off the touchpad, it jumps to the bottom of the page. This is very frustrating as I have to scroll back up to find my place. This happens with Chrome, Word, IE, Firefox, everything.
The same issue is also plaguing this user: [URL] .....
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Oct 13, 2008
A friend just showed me his new Dell Vostro lappy. He has 4 GB of DDR2 800mhz memory on it when compared to my 4 GB of DDR2 667mhz memory on my XPS 1530
However, under his windows experience score - he gets 5.9 score for memory operations while I just get a 5.1. I can't believe that a couple of hundred mhz can result in such a drastic difference.
Is there something optimized for his system but not for mine?
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Jan 12, 2015
I just purchased a used Elitebook 8540w with i7 quad core and four memory slots (I love it!).  It is running 64 bit Windows 7 Professional  It came with one 4gb memory module and I purchased an additional 4gb module to bring total RAM to 8gb. Â
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I have the HP document that shows for two 4gb memory modules, one should be in memory slot 1 and the other in memory slot 3 for correct functioning of dual channel memory. Â All set right?
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Not quite.  In the Elitebook 8540w, the primary memory slots under the keyboard are clearly labeled "1" and "2"  However, the expansion memory slots on the underside of the chassis are also clearly labeled "1" and "2"  Opps!  There is no "3" and there is no "4"  In which of the unfilled three slots do I install the second 4gb module for correct functioning of dual channel memory?
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Oct 18, 2014
i having the Acer TravelMate 6493, originally it have 2GB of Memory. Recently, i have addin additional 2GB, mean that currently the system is having 4GB of Memory.
in the BIOS, showing the system is installed with 4GB of Memory, but when come into the windows, it show 4GB installed (2.90GB Usable) .....
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Apr 10, 2010
I have been hearing that the read/playback performance of the bluray drive on this laptop is terrible. Some say that it stutters all the way through an entire movie and it is very loud. Is this true? My second question is about the $375 charge for upgrading from 4GB RAM to 8GB RAM. Is it overpriced? Also, how easy is it to upgrade the RAM on the XPS 16?
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Oct 23, 2009
Dell Inspiron 6000. Upgraded memory from 512MB to 2GB Ram. Is there any point of me saving these sticks or should i just throw them away?
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Mar 6, 2009
What is the difference between these? The only thing i can see is a 50 dollar larger hole in your pocket...There cant be anything different is there?
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May 29, 2010
I have a 1640 with 6G of RAM installed, however when I run CPU ID CPU Z,
it is reporting my DRAM frequency at 532 instead of 1066 MHZ.
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Nov 6, 2009
I have a 2.5 year old E1705 notebook. I'm going to upgrade to W7 soon and in the process I thought I'd upgrade my memory from 2GB to 4GB.
I ran Dell's utility from their tech support page and it seems to be the case that the maximum my computer will support is 2GB! Is that possible?
In any case, I ran a diagnostic program (from Dell's utility) and it says my computer has two memory slots, and currently each slot on my computer has "Dual In-line Memory Module 1GB, 533, 128X64, 8K, 200", whatever that means.
I assume the 533 is memory speed (Hz) value. So according to Dell's utility, I am unable to increase the amount of RAM, but I could, for instance, "upgrade" to better chips (i.e., Dell sells DDR2 SDRAM Memory Speed: 800 MHz). Price would be $56.
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Mar 21, 2009
I'm with Studio 1535 and strangely for me with:
2 GB Kingston
1 GB Sam sung
on Dell Web my notebook appears as only 2 GB Kingston.
But Kingston is very good ram mark.
Samsung is wide used by HP.
So I guess they both are very good!In my eyes Kingston is better but Sam sung is not bad too. (I doubt my samsung blank little overheat but I don't have issues with my ram till now, so...)
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Nov 27, 2008
I was wondering if anyone had tried putting those G-Skill 4GB memory chips onto a Dell m1730 laptop, and if so, did they notice any major performance gains in doing so.
I use a few simulators at home, especially a Cisco sim called Dynamips which is both a CPU and memory hog, and I also use VMWARE a bit, so I thought I'd see if it's worth the upgrade to 8 GBs of RAM.
Any comments on stability, usefulness, experiences in Vista, etc. getting the system to recognize the full 8 GBs of RAM, etc.
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Feb 24, 2009
I was wondering if anyone else here could help me out...I'm needing to buy some more memory for my xps m1210 that's a couple of years old...
what's the best way to go about doing this? should i buy it from Dell or Best Buy or new egg?
also, if anyone knows, is it worth my time to try and install it myself or should i just pay the 40 or whatever to geek squad?
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Feb 11, 2008
If I get an m1730 with 2GB 667MHz ram memory and I want to upgrade to another 2GB of memory to make it 4GB, do I have to get 667MHz or I can get 800MHz?
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Jun 12, 2009
What memory should I buy to my M1330? I'm looking for 4 GB modules but Dell doesn't have them on their Swedish site. And I assume there are cheaper ones than those recommended by Dell.
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Feb 21, 2013
I'm planing to upgrade Ram Memory of my DELL XPS 15z for running some virtual environments. My question it's about the max amount of memory that the laptop support and the compatible memory modules. In some forums I read about 16Gb, but Dell PcCheckup shows 8Gb as the max amount of memory.
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Jun 13, 2009
I'm an owner of a sxps 1340 and have the following problem. My system freezes after 5 minutes of operating. It does that 3 out of the 4 times if I reboot. I think this appeared after I installed the videocard update when I received the Dell "Alert".
After corresponding with Dell they advised me to do a system restore, which didn't help. So now I did a factory image restore to bring everything back as initially.
My system has 4GB of internal memory, but if I start task manager I only see 2301MB of physical memory. And my system is using 51% of the total physical memory. This without having installed any programs except the one that came with the factory image.
My question is: Could this be a memory hardware failure?
I've attached a printscreen of my task manager.
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Jan 15, 2009
As far as i know, m1330 support intel turbo memory... but where is the slot to insert the memory?
which improve more, from 2gb to 4gb ram or put a 4 gb turbo memory
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Apr 18, 2010
I like my Dell D620 so much that I just got another one. I've heard that I should not add an additional 1G module to the existing 1G in this laptop, but rather that it is best to replace the existing 1G with either two matched 1G modules or one 2G module. Is that correct? Seems a shame to toss the 1G that's already in there . . .
Could I add a 2G module to the 1G that's already in there? I'm assuming that the bay will accept two RAM modules.
The OS is XP-Pro, SP3, if that matters.
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May 22, 2009
I have my Dell Studio 17 (1737)
swapped my macbook for it, this one has 2G ram.
going to upgrade on payday to 4G asap!
been looking at Crucial, their memory is CL6 timiing.
is it worth going for CL5 timing ?
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Sep 8, 2009
can i upgrade from 2GB to 3GB or necessarily i have to go to 4G?
tks, Douglas
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Jun 9, 2009
I have a Dell Inspiron 9300, about 4 years old. I bought it with 1 gb RAM, and I'd like to extend the life of it by a few months, and make it a little faster.
This is the RAM that dell recommends for my laptop to upgrade:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/P...x?sku=A0758238
Unfortunately, looking at my order when I first got the laptop, it says this .....
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Mar 8, 2008
I am thinking this is something related to the drivers for my video card, nvsvc32.exe seems to be part of the Nvidia drivers.
What I do not understand is why it's currently using up ~40 - 50% continuous CPU and 402,456K of memory.
While svchost.exe is using up the rest of the CPU %.
I used task manager to just kill them both, nothing has seemed to change "stability wise" and they are no long using up that much CPU/Memory.
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Oct 18, 2007
I'm looking to upgrade my M90 to 4GB. Normally I use crucial, but they are charging £190 for 2 x 2GB DDR2 5300 chips.
I've had a look on Ebay and I can get the same for £110. When I asked who made the chips he said "Micron/Crucial chips from Swissbit." To be honest I'm not sure if that means they are made by Crucial or by Swissbit. Anyone know about these?
There was another EBayer who was selling Buffallo chips for £120. If these are well known I may go for these. I'm just a bit wary of buying brands I haven't heard of.
Incidentally, I presume that 1x1GB + 1X2GB will be slower than matching chips (I considered only buying one 2GB stick as I already have 2x1GB, but I seem to recall that the chips need to mirror one another for optimum speed)
I've just noticed the 3.25gb thread which suggests dual channel mode is normally only slightly faster.
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Jul 15, 2007
Everytime I put one of those memory sticks (its a sony one) into my m1710 I get a BSOD. I've used the card b4 when I had vista with no problems. I'm thinking now that I'm back with XP, I'm missing a driver or something. I'm not sure which driver I'm supposed to use though...
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