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    Using Acer Aspire 5101 and 5102 with 256 shared memory

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by mstolunay, Feb 26, 2007.

  1. mstolunay

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    Hello, in Turkey a new model of 5101 has been sold with 256 mb x1100 graphics card.

    My friend bougth this model of 5101. Its bios version is 2.73 and bios has a option for 256 mb shared memory.

    We dumped the new 5101's bios and flash my 5102 with this new bios. And now I can use my 5102 with 256 mb shared memory.

    If you have 1 gb or more memory you can use your 5101 or 5102 with 256 mb shared memory with bios version 2.73.

    These are my 5102's bios photos after flashing with bios version 2.73.

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    You can download the bios version 2.73 from here http://rapidshare.com/files/18299650/Bios_2.73.rar.html
     
    mstolunay, Feb 26, 2007
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Great, but does this actually improve performance? Can you run some benchmarks over the previous 128?
     
    adinu, Feb 26, 2007
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  3. mstolunay

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    This my 3Dmark01 SE score after bios 2.73

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    mstolunay, Feb 27, 2007
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