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    acer 5315 with 4 gig ram

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by mossopinc, Nov 23, 2009.

  1. mossopinc

    mossopinc Newbie

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    ive been looking arouind the forums here and ive read that my acer 5315 can be upgraded a bit which i love as i dont like the poor celeron cpu and the 512mb ram so i bought the best cpu i could which wat a core 2 duo t7700 and 2 2 gig ram sticks (pc2-5300) problem is the cpu works a treat but when i put the 4 gig ram my lappy resets when windows tries to load and i dont understand why? it works great with 1 2gb ram and 1 512mb but only when i put the 512 in 1st then the 2gb stick on top, im sure i have prob miss read sommit but dont know wat, can anyone help me out on this issue?

    oh and i did do a reformat on my system when i upgraded and i even used a 64 bit windows as i know the 32 bit version dont really like 4 gig
     
    mossopinc, Nov 23, 2009
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  2. IzNoGooD

    IzNoGooD Notebook Enthusiast

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    acer 5315 can only work with maximum 3GB RAM - it is chipset limitation.
     
    IzNoGooD, Nov 24, 2009
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  3. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    Maximum memory installed in Acer Aspire5315 is limited to 2GB as stated by Crucial.
     

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  4. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Not quite. Either the chipset supports 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB. If the chipset supports 4GB or more, not all of it may be accessible because of memory mapped I/O. 32bit OSes are typically limited to 3-3.5GB of RAM, but not because of the chipset - because of the limitations of a 32bit OS.

    In this case, the chipset is limited to 2GB of RAM at most. So you're kind of stuck here.
     
    Greg, Nov 24, 2009
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  5. IzNoGooD

    IzNoGooD Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok.... in the Acer 5315 CPU upgrade theme it was stated this limitation is set 'cause of the Intel 960 chipset. I have the same laptop and have 3GB of DDR2 RAM.
     
    IzNoGooD, Nov 24, 2009
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  6. mossopinc

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    well i have 2.5 gig or ram installed at the mo and it sems fine and ive ran a few programs that all say i have 2.5 installed so id have to belieave the 3 programs that i tried over the scanner at Crucial. my mistake in getting the 2 2 gig sticks :( ill just sell 1 and buy a 1 gb stick and just settle with 3 gig total
     
    mossopinc, Nov 24, 2009
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