Acer 4315 Crashes

I'm new to this forum and to laptops so you'll have to bear with me. I bought a new Aspire 4315 and thought it would be a good idea to up the memory. I installed a gig of the same spec. memory made by Buffalo. Everything loaded fine and the laptop worked for a short time then started crashing. I reformated it with the new memory and it crashed. Reformated with both the original 512 and the 1g cards and it crashed. I removed the 1g card and now the laptop is running again, but it is slow.
I'm assuming that the Buffalo memory is not compatable with Acer, so would 2g's (1g.x2) of Kingston work. I'm exchanging the laptop for another one, but I sure would prefer more memory. Any suggestions.

 

No, the memory brand should not matter.

Try re-seating the memory, it may have just been a bad connection to the motherboard causing the issue.

If that doesn't work, I'd bet that that particular stick of memory is bad.

Greg

 

Thanks Gregg, I'll try reseating it.

 

And after that, buy a Core 2 Duo T5450 on ebay I just upgraded my friends Aspire 4315, she bought the laptop Micro Center for $359. The processor upgrade was the absolute easiest I had ever done!! Plus the processor was like $60 on ebay. So we basically turned a $359 budget machine into a very fast workhorse.

Then I put in a 7k200 hard drive (7200RPM) just like I have in my Aspire 3680. We put 3gb of RAM in her 4315 though. That thing SCREAMS like a ****d ape, let me tell you.

 

I read your report on that in another thread and it looked like it was easy enough that even I could do. The 4315 is going back tomorrow to be exchanged for another one. I don't trust it and I just bought it Thur. so they can have this one back.
Would the Seagate 120g 7200 work as well as the one you installed? Is she still using windows Vista Home Basic?
Oh, and is this the one you are talking about?
Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66 GHz Socket P Processor

 

That is the processor I was talking about, and I dont see any reason why the seagate would be any different from Hitachi, although Hitachi does get a lot of performance marks.

I dont blame you for returning it. I'd do the same thing!

 

hi mich, i also have an acer 4315, aside from Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66 GHz Socket P Processor is there any other processor upgrade you can suggest maybe a 2 GHz?

If I upgrade my processor, is there any other parts that I should upgrade too?

 

A Penryn ? Like the T8300/T9300 ?

 

I bought a T5550 cpu. But, it 4315 won't boor up. Any one can help?
3 gig memory

Thanks in advance!!

 

Update to the latest BIOS. Or try with two 2GB of RAM only.