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    Travelmate 8200 Memory Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by kazor, Oct 24, 2008.

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    Hi,

    I have a Travelmate 8204WLMi (model no.: ZC1) and it came with 2 x 512MB PC2-4200 modules giving 1GB in total. Now I'm trying to use 2 x 2GB PC2-5300 modules giving 4GB total.

    The machine seems to accept the two new modules but there seems to be some timing issues. A manifestation of this happens when I switch it on and it takes 20+ seconds for the BIOS screen to come on. Also in Windows control panel, the machine speed shows up as 1.00GHz, 1.33GHz or 1.67GHz sometimes instead of the usual 2.00GHz.

    The guys at the tech support sayd it can handle the PC2-5300 modules and it can indeed take up to 4GB. Already tried using both modules seperately on either slot and the machine works fine with each of the modules on any of the slots. It just doesn't seem to like it when two are installed at the same time. Any ideas why and how to fix it?
     
    kazor, Oct 24, 2008
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    I also noticed that with the two 2GB modules installed, device manager in puts a yellow exclamation mark by device "Intel(R) 820 1GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Root Port - 27E2". It reports that this device cannot find enough free resources that it can use (Code 12). The two modules are from Crucial. Appreciate any thoughts!
     
    kazor, Oct 25, 2008
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    All good now. BIOS version 1.3520 fixes the problem. No problems booting or yellow exclamation marks coming up.
     
    kazor, Oct 26, 2008
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