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    What DDR2 Ram?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by zxNoteB, Jul 26, 2008.

  1. zxNoteB

    zxNoteB Notebook Enthusiast

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    What ram are people using to upgrade? Is basic generic stuff fine or would it be better going for Corsair or something a bit more up market?

    Btw, there is no way to overclock Acer laptops?
     
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    Depends....newest use DDR3, newer use DDR2, old use DDR and even older use SDRAM.... :D

    Best to go for Corsair, G Skill, OCZ, etc. - any with lifetime manufacturer's warranty....

    And you can OC Acer, I have mine OCed now.. :p
     
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    1) what notebook do you have
    2) You can OC the graphics card and thats about it. (no IGP overclocking though)
     
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    Have a 4315 and a 5920G....both these machines are DDR2 eh? I bought 2GB DDR2 200pin (Kingston) and neither machine recognises its existance.....

    so you can't overclock the cpu on either of these machines?
     
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    have you tried using 1 DIMM at a time??

    i know the latest BIOS version for my model (ASPIRE 5315) has a fix to make MY MODEL compatible different brands of ram (micron ram inparticular)

    just a thought
     
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    Yeah, tried only the 2GB stick in both slots of both machines (4315 and 5315). Neither will boot with it in place. When I put a 1GB stick in as well, the system boots and only the 1GB stick is recognised.
     
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    did you try with only 1 stick of 2g ram??
     
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    Yeah, I tried just the one stick of 2GB ram alternately in either slot.
     
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    upgrade your BIOS...

    i know for a fact that people are using 3 gigs of ram in 5315s

    what BIOS version do you have now???

    support.acer.com has version 1.42 or 1.43

    i have ran 1.43 in my 5315 with no problems
     
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    WHAT BRAND AND SPEC ARE THESE 2 gig sticks?
     
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    The are kingston PC5300 CL5 ......
    How do I upgrade my machines bios in the most safe manner? I really don't want any more dead laptops ;) I've got a USB floppy here now - I'm thinking I can boot to pure dos and run a flash exe from there?

    Not to sure what version the bios is now....how do I tell? Thanks man. Oh -its in the bios. v1.07 on the 4315.
     
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    tomorrow i will walk you thru it

    right now i'm too tired and too pissed off to be at the top of my game
     
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    No worries man, I flashed the bios to the latest version...1.13 for the 4315. I made a clean DR Dos boot disc from bootdisk.com and loaded the bios files onto the disk. Looking at the bios.bat file it seemed the bios file necessary for dos mode was VV2-113.WPH. So all good

    But the RAM still doesn't work....I think its faulty.

    What going on in your life?
     
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    cool,,,

    not sleeping enough.... and getting dissappointed by other NBR members who seem to just ignore me,, yet have the gall to publicly mess with me if i gotget to say hello them.

    glad ya figured it out... i'm outta here.... good nite
     
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    Run MemTest86+ to diagnose the ram for errors....
     
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    The 4315 won't boot with the 2GB module in either slot by itself. A laptop ram company told me the 4315 only supports up to 2GB total (2x1GB sticks) ?!
     
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    i'll do some research on that later.. gotta run an errand now
     
    bigozone, Jul 27, 2008
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