Asus F3 series notebooks: would you like 4gb RAM capabilities?

Here's the situation we're all facing: The Asus F3 series notebooks come equip with the Intel i945PM northbridge chipset which supports up to 4GB of RAM, whereas the latest BIOS is limiting us to 2GB (2.8 in some cases). Since there are 2 memory banks, this notebook could easily, and very inexpensively, take 4GB RAM.

I absolutely love my F3Jm notebook. I would like it support the 4GB RAM though. This would help me out a lot, since I unfortunately am running Vista.

I think we should get a friendly petition together to present to Asus and ask them to release a BIOS update that allows us to install 4GB RAM. I'm sure it wouldn't take much on their part (seeing as they released an update to allow an upgrade to the Core 2 Duo processor and to fix battery overheating, at least with the F3Jm model).

What do you guys think? Comments welcome!

-Randy S.

 

When I proposed the question to Asus customer support originally, I got a response on 7/21/2007:

 

I'm not very optimistic about a petition succeeding with ASUS... they don't like to update their BIOSes too much, even less so if there are no real problems (bugs) to address.

But I don't see the harm in trying (except the time investment for the person who takes care of organizing the petition).

 

Yes please. I've got an F3 series. I'd like 4 gigs of ram

 

I installed a Core 2 Duo T7200 and 4GB ram. I am nousiness 64bit, I'd really like to be able to utilize all my RAM.

 

This thread is, unfortunately, pointless.

Asus has never, ever, responded to any customer led petition drive, for changing something in one of their notebooks or BIOS unless it is a known issue/problem affecting unit functioning. It's also not in their nature, esp for an older model. This is historical precedent, which they are quite likely to follow.

No one should get any hopes up that this will change something - usually all this sort of thing results in is later people complaining about how Asus was unresponsive and flaming the company.

I agree with EBE that there is no harm in the attempt, and wish all good luck, but please everyone let's move on from this....

 

That's just it, it's always stayed at the status of a "drive". I don't remember any report of any real petition, signed by a number of people, sent to ASUS.

The problem is that it is difficult to get people to commit to doing this kind of thing. They will all agree that they would like to do it, on the forums etc., but then nobody really takes charge and organizes the thing. So it never gets done. I strongly suspect that even if somebody did take charge, not every person agreeing to it on the forum, under the protection of anonymity, will also do truly sign their real name, when the moment comes.

That's only human nature, I'm afraid.

That is, unless there have been some real petitions that I don't remember about.

I do agree with ClearSkies though that even if this went through, it's not overly likely that ASUS will take it into account. But since there aren't enough past examples (if any), we're not really not sure how ASUS will react.