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    Acer Aspire 9300 RAM upgrade, NEED HELP!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Askarii, Jul 20, 2007.

  1. Askarii

    Askarii Notebook Consultant

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    I currently have a 512mb ram piece in my acer aspire 9300, I want to ADD a 1gb ram peice, for a total of 1.5gb of RAM.

    My current 512mb ram peice is in the back (easy-access) slot.

    Last night I was about ready to throw the machine at the wall because I was not able to find the 2nd RAM slot, and I was having a terrible time opening up this piece of plastic.


    Anyone know of any ILLUSTRATED (or not...) guides on how to access BOTH ram slots in the aspire 9300?


    EDIT: Acer website and owner/system manuals were of no use what-so-ever.
    thx
     
    Askarii, Jul 20, 2007
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  2. Evolution

    Evolution Vox Sola

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    If you don't see the second ram slot when you take the panel off of the bottom of the notebook then the second ram slot is most likely under the keyboard.
     
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  3. Askarii

    Askarii Notebook Consultant

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    thats what I had thought since most other notebooks are made that way.

    OInly the problem is, how do I open up the keyboard on the aspire 9300?... I seriously have no clue here.

    My latitude D630 was quite straight forward, and there exists a guide for that. But on the aspire 9300 there is no info anywhere and no easy-going obvious way to open it...


    any help?
     
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    Hairy_Lee Notebook Consultant

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    Both of the ram slots are one on top of the other; so you should have a double bank of ram slots... i'm guessing that your current stick is on the top slot furthest away from the mainboard; take that one out and you should find another underneath
     
    Hairy_Lee, Jul 21, 2007
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  5. Askarii

    Askarii Notebook Consultant

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    Well i'll be damned...

    thx Hairy Lee :D

    My ram chip was on the bottom slot... I guess i didn't notice the first ram slot since the bottom one is black, and the top one white.


    anyway, my fault :eek:


    thx again!
     
    Askarii, Jul 21, 2007
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