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    Acer Aspire 5610 please help.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Hawk105, Jul 4, 2011.

  1. Hawk105

    Hawk105 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello! My name is Hawk (no joke) I have a Acer Aspire 5610AWLMi which I want too upgrade.

    Current Specs:
    Motherboard: Acer Grapevine
    Processor: Intel Solo T1350 (1.8GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache)
    RAM: 512MB DDR2.
    Chipset: i945PM
    Graphics: Nvidia 7300 Go 256MB

    Upgrade specs that I want.
    Processor: Merom T7600 Core 2 Duo.
    RAM: 4GB
    Graphics: Nvidia, preferably with 512MB

    I also have a SocketM or otherwise known as Socket 479 mPGA.
    Can I have that upgrade?
     
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    akbisw Notebook Consultant

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    Im wondering if your bios will support a dual core or not.
     
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    Hawk105 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have an Acer Bios V2.80, DMI 2.f, it's also not socketed if that helps.
     
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    Hi Hawk,
    You can upgrade your memory to 4GB without any problem(you can check with crucial.com), you mentioned not socketed, can you make it clear that for me please. Can you open up and look at the RAM bay, if you see the numbers similar to MB.AZL 06 or MB.TDX06, you can upgrade to C2D upto T7600.
     
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    I think, that non socketed means that my bios is soldered to my motherboard.
    In addition, I looked at my RAM bay and there was no MB.AZL 06 or MB.TDX06, is it some type of part number? I' am pretty sure you are referring to my motherboard right?
     
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    Yes,it's the motherboard number, may be a different number, it will be on a sticker near the RAM bay. You can open and remove the heatsink and see whether it's soldered or not. If it looks like in the picture with a screw, it's socketed. If it's soldered, you cannot change the cpu.
     

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    I' ll will open up my laptop in the next week or so, to be sure if it's soldered or not and I will get back to you, in the meantime here's a pic of my Intel Solo T1350. Intel Core Solo T1350 LF80538GE0362M (BX80538T1350) , what do you think from the picture socketed or soldered?

    Just click the picture tab on the top left.
     
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    I think yours is socketed, from your picture and the details it seems that you can just drop in another socket M proc.
    Package- 478-Pin FC-PGA
    If it's soldered, it would have read FC-BGA and also from the picture there's a small yellow triangle on the bottom left corner, it must be aligned with another triangle where you drop the cpu.

    EDIT: Please make sure that your motherboard chipset is i943 or i945, if it's i940 you can not upgrade to dual core.
     
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    Hawk105 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for all the info on my CPU, really appreciate it. Also I wanted to know about my Graphics card is it changeable? Here's some info on it:
    Bus type: PCI-Express
    Converter: Integrated RAMDAC
    Connector Type: VGA - (Place: Socketed).
    I don't know if any of that info helped, but if it did, then is it changeable?
     
    Hawk105, Jul 5, 2011
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    No it's not- it's an integrated graphics.
     
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    Thanks for the quick reply! :) I'll open up my Laptop just to be sure about everything. Thank you for helping me.
     
    Hawk105, Jul 6, 2011
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    Ok, so I have opened up my laptop and I've tried removing the video card, processor, and RAM. All of that took some time but I removed all of them, which is good, however I now wonder for how much would this laptop sell for?
     
    Hawk105, Jul 21, 2011
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