Sony Vaio Gold Laptops

Sony Vaio Gold Laptops

ECC memory is not portable shorter than ECC memory?

I recently bought a stick of 256 MB of PC133 SDRAM SO-DIMM for my old Sony laptop Vaio FX240. The memory setting in the slot at an angle of 45 degrees, with 144 PIN, but when I lay it down and click the place was too long to fit in the slot. This was clearly the right heart, but was too far from the gold connectors at the start of RAM. I learned that I needed non-ECC and ECC memory that I had not bought by mistake. Because non-ECC memory is 1 less than the module chips (4 chips instead of the 5 on the chip I had) Does that mean we are organized in the form vertically from left to right, instead of horizontally in each corner and 1 vertical in the middle? This would make the shortest memory module fit in the slot on the right? 4 modules, of course, takes up less space, 5. I just bought this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AYV5PU You can see the 4 chips. The one I had just returned had 5 chips and it seemed as gold top.

Yes, that's possible. ECC stands for "Error Correcting Code. This means that for every 32 bits of memory, in reality there are 7 additional bits stored. This requires additional chips to store the extra bits. The actual height of the DIMM is actually a function the board layout, so it's really important is to check the pin number and width of the DIMM. Basically, if it fits in the slot, has a good chance work.

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