OT: One last laptop memory question before I throw it out of the ruddy window

I'm afraid I've no idea, there's no techy info on the case of the thing, it's a 17.5" screen, but I would imagine that's fairly useless info without the rest of it.

In message , Rod writes

Yep, it's is normally reliable.

I take it you didn't buy from Crucial - normally it's worth it even if it's not the cheapest.

If you buy the recommend RAM from Crucial in response to their scan they will refund you if it turns out to be the wrong sort

Phone crucial - they will sort it for you and exchange devices at their expense usually.

To check the HD size go to My Computer and right click on the Hard Drive ..probably the C Drive and click " properties" That will tell you the amount of Free and Used space and the total is the size of the HD . As for the CPU you go to Start/Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager and scroll down until you see "Processors" and expand that and it will give you the info you require .

That will tell you the size of the C partition not the drive, for example my drive is 320G the C drive is only 60G.