replace HDD for SSD on Acer 1825PTZ

Hello everybody, I am thinking about replacing the original, somewhat slow HDD of 320 Gb of the Acer Aspire 1825PTZ for a SSD drive and would like to have if possible pictures or even better a video of the disassemble of the HDD drive and the assemble of the SSD drive so I do nothing wrong. I took off the bottom cover and saw that one has to untape something and disconnect some connector, maybe someone has experience with this and can help me out?

Many thanks in advance!!

 

Try this:
Let me google that for you

 

Thanks but not really helpful, tried that already and could not find a clear video on replacing the HDD on this Acer 1825PTZ...

 

Once you get access to the hard drive, just remove the hard drive (and ribbon cable), swap the drive, and put everything back together. It is relatively simple.

If you are not comfortable doing that, then maybe you can find a friend to do it, or bring it to someone and pay them to do it?

 

Thanks for the info and advice.

Maybe someone has a link to a service manual for this Acer timeline 1825PTZ??

 

well, I have solved it. Went to the Acer service center and they replaced the HDD by the SSD in a minute, no charge, and now my notebook flies... best upgrade you can do..

take care

 

Ive read the 1825ptz can take up to 8 gig ram is that true?

 

Yep, that is what I have right now in mine, 8 Gb of Samsung SODIMM 1066Mhz.. too bad it only runs at 800Mhz.

 

it seems a bit more lively in this thread, heres a link showing my screen issues, it must fly with 8 gigs in it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXmHooSm-s

 

Yes, I recognise those screenvue issues on mine, especially with dark colours.

Regarding to 8Gb of Ram, it is overrated, I think 6Gb is more then enough, am sure you do not notice any difference from 6Gb to 8Gb. What you do notice is the increase in speed when you install an SSD disk of at least 80 Gb, that is when you give it a real boost...
I can even watch tv channels in HD using my Hauppauge HVR900H USB receiver and DVBView 4.5 with hardly any delays.. of course, in HD mode the processor is put quiet much to the test but not fully constantly, at least with DVBView, with WinTV which I find a crappy program you do get shocking/breaking images and often not even HD channels.

What I would like to know is wether it is possible to change the Intel U4100 processor for a faster one, maybe someone can give light to that issue??..

 

You mean the SU4100? No. It's soldered to your motherboard, so you can't change it without changing out the entire motherboard. At that point, you might as well buy a new computer.

 

Yes, I meant the SU4100. Well thanks for clearing that up.. of course I am not going to replace the entire mobo.
Maybe someone can give info about (slightly) overclocking the CPU and the FSB so my memory can run as close as possible to 1066Mhz?

 

i know you can over clock it according to other folks here on the net, but to what extent and advantage im unaware

 

Do you know of a link (here on this forum) where this is discussed or explained?

 

i dont but you may be able to do some digging around on here and find some ppl with the knowledge of overclocking other machines

 

I´ve looked around and indeed for the Acer 1410 and similars there are pages with advice about overclocking... the thing is that you have to open the notebook up and modify the hardware by soldering something...not me, I keep the machine like it is.. for the little boost it is going to give, not worth it

 

hmmmm that gives me a thought, i use throttlestop on my 8930g so it copes better when playing games, i wonder if the same prog could be used to help the su4100?

 

Well, if someone has already tested it and can gice us some heads up... all info about pushing the SU4100 to its limit without modifying hardware is welcome

 

No dice. SU4100 has no IDA capability to contemplate dualIDA overclock. Only way you'll get more performance is doing the FSLx+BSEL PLL pinmod.

 

I see, thanks anyway for this interesting thread/link.

I have only been able to boost the multiplier using Throttlestop 2.89 by 0,5 but the temps do also go quiet up then and it runs at about 1272Mhz instead of the max 1199Mhz without Throttlestop.. too bad about that FSB, only modifyable after pinmod.

 

SU4100 runs at 200x6.5=1300Mhz standard. If yours is running 1.2Ghz then check bios settings. Throttlestop is not enabling anything extra with your CPU.

The FSLx mod could also be done by modifying the CPU pins directly. At least on the 2510P that's possible. See here.

 

The BIOS for the ACER 1825PTZ is extremely limited, nothing possible to modify regarding CPU or other hardware. I guess that extra 0,5 multiplier is standard not active and Throttlestop pushes it to its max.

 

I saw an alienware m11x with an su4100 in it with a dedicated nvidia graphics card, sticking one into the acer aint gonna happen?

 

Do you mean if it´s possible or if it`s worth it?

 

Do you mean the CPU, or the graphics card? The CPU is soldered to the motherboard, so that's definitely out, and I doubt the GPU will be replaceable either. If you're talking about trying to swap out entire motherboards.... I really don't think that's a good idea.

 

well if possible and or worth it to put in a dedicated graphics card, was just out of interest really