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    aspire 3620 bios

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by rgauchey, Apr 28, 2009.

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    I recently upgraded my aspire 3623 from a M370 to a M740. The bios needs to be upgraded to operate speedstep of the new cpu. Currently it runs at 1.3 instead of the 1.7 it's supposed to. At bootup it says 1.733 gh but in EVEREST it says it's running 1.296gh. I can't find on the ACER site where to get the BIOS upgrade download. Is there a 3rd party location anyone knows about?
     
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    ThanX for the link. I downloaded it and when I try to execute it I get an error message saying something like........cannot flash while memory manager is running eg: emm386. How do I disable memory manager?
     
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    Succeeded in installing the update. But the readout is still the same. I think it's the FSB setting. Does anyone know how to change that on this notebook?
     
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    Have you ran CPU-Z to see what the readouts there for your CPU are.
     
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    CPUz gives the same info. running @ 1.296, identified as 1.733. The bus speed is 99.8 instead of the 133 it should be. I have the proper ram so I need to manually boost the bus speed somehow.
     
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