Acer Upgrade Ram
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I have an Acer Aspre 5349, I replaced the hard drive from the orginal 320 GB ATA 300 with 5400 rpm to 500 GB SATA with 5400 rpm I also upgraded the memory from 2GB to 8GB also using a 2GB flash card for ready boost; runs great only thing is I still have a slow Intel cpu with only 1.6 GHz. I want to upgrade to an Intel i7 2640m with 2.8 Ghz. Was wondering if anyone has tried this or made similer upgrades? Also open to sugestions on other cpu's that will be compatible with this chip set.
I tried an i5 2.7ghz two days ago in my 5349 (came with celeron dual core b800 1.5ghz) and my computer wouldn't even turn on. i put the old cpu back in and it fired up like normal, so i'm not sure if the cpu needed more power than the computer could give it, just wasn't compatible, or if the bios/chipset wouldn't support it. i did some research and found you can upgrade safely to an i3 (2330 i think and also 2.0-2.5ghz), but above that, i honestly can't find anyone who knows. i've searched the net for weeks now trying to find out if the motherboard/bios can handle more, but just can't find anyone with that answer. hope this helps you out.
I suspect that you were using an Ivy Bridge i5. I think if you stick to a Sandy Bridge CPU it will work. I am shopping for one on Ebay myself right now and will report back if I get something faster transplanted. I really want an i7-2620 but I'm too cheap to spill $120 on a cpu. I see i5-2430's going for around $50. That's more my speed.
I am getting the same cpu for christmas as Davidmasurik upgraded his laptop with. How is the cpu working in your laptop David? I also purchased 8GB ram for the system. I hope to do some swift computing in the future.
Hi Dave321. My acer with the upgrade is still running fine and have not had any problems with the upgrades that I did even though I live in a hot place I haven't had a days problem and my laptop is running 24 hour's. Merry Christmas and I hope you get it right.[edited for privacy]
But, I can boot with legacy boot mode, not UEFI. So, I think my UEFI firmware has some problem and I want to upgrade my UEFI. So, I download correct BIOS for my laptop from acer website and it contains only one executable file.
Following on from the previous answer, my *.exe file was called "VA410218.exe" and extracted to "Users//AppData/Local/Temp/7z????.tmp" directory and contained the files (Which as stated will probably get erased when the cmd window closes .. so keep it open) and copy them to somewhere useful. .
I flash bios in my acer 5560g with dead 0% battery from antisms win8 pe livecd.I cant flash bios from dos, because my battery lvl is there -6999%.But in livecd it be 23%. I run win bios .exe in a few minutes later and lvl battery is 25%. I waited about 20 minutes, until the charge was 30 and safely flash bios on my notebook.I hope that my decision can help someone.
3.Navigate to your current users temp directory %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp, there should be somewhere a temporary directory containing the extracted files from the EXE file (for me it was 7zS4A88.tmp)
SWAP is not quite the same thing as RAM although they do essentially the same thing from a higher level looking down, but swap is far slower and implemented with a storage device such as a hard drive or a solid state drive instead of memory. So this will help in some situations where the 2gb in my Chromebook is just not enough but not as quick as a physical ram module which is what was asked in this question.
Not trying to respond rudely just wanted to make the distinction for any future readers. Your answer was helpful just not 100% the correct answer for this problem, but is a solution. However swap on an ssd is ill advised due to r/w count. So I would not do this.
An SSD is a solid state drive. R/W count is read/write count. As you write data to an SSD, flipping 1s to 0s and vice versa, you physically wear out the device. This effect is present in all solid state memory, as far as I know, but it worse on the eMMC drives that are typically used in Chromebooks relative to the traditional NAND drives.
The R/W count problem is a bit exaggerated. It will shorten the overall lifespan of the SSD, but it's not "ill-advised", considering how its unlikely to be anyone's main, everyday workhorse... I would consider this advice the result of too much detailed tech knowledge and not practical usage advice.
Hello Christopher, and welcome to iFixit. I see this is your first question. Sadly the Acer C720 does not allow for you to upgrade your memory exclusively; however, you are able to upgrade the memory to a maximum of 4 GB by replacing the motherboard itself to a model with 4 GB. Follow the guide on the Acer C720 device page for replacing the motherboard.
The memory usage is proportional to the number of pixels on the screen because the laptop stores bitmaps for many of the background windows. Therefore, make sure your laptop is set to 1366x768 or 1024x576 to minimize RAM usage (hit crtl-shift-+ and crtl-shift-minus to change the resolution of the display). Also, remove as many browser extensions as possible to maximize cpu performance.
If your machine has only 2GB of system memory on-board, you can have an engineer flow the empty spaces with more memory allowing the system to reach the maximum of 4GB, However, this can be achieved by you if you have electronic skills.
I purchased a dead mother board from eBay, found that the video card had failed, so I replaced the SMD component with a 2nd hand part from another Motherboard using a hot air gun, and it worked fine, the same applies to adding memory . Although, these components are not necessarily replaceable. This is just a myth, in order for the customer to buy a new Chromebook.
ONE NOTE to point out is, if you do change or upgrade the Motherboard, you may have to re-install the Operating System from an SD-card back to the SSD. You could also upgrade the SSD to 32, 64 or 128GB giving you ample space to swap the memory to the SSD, leaving the on-board memory for the running CPU tasks...
May I refer to the task of replacing SMD components. First the component can only be removed using a hot-air gun, After 20-seconds or so the chip should become lose enough ready to be removed from the board. I then use liquid flux to clean the circuit up with an Iron and solder wick, taking care not to apply too much heat, this however does take time, so patience is high on the list, being that too much heat can destroy the track you're working on, or worse case lift the track off completely causing even more repair. I then apply using "IPA" to thoroughly clean the board re-moving all the flux-residue preparing it for the next stage, The next job is to re-ball the chip with 0.01 solder-balls using a SMD solder mask, heat it to around 600c for 5-minutes. When the balling has adhered to the chip then its ready for replacing back to the MB once the mask has been removed. The success rate for this technique is tricky, I would suggest trying it with known duds first to get the feel & experience.
Touch, you actually responded. Well, there might have been some jealousy and frustration in my comment. You have given helpful hints here, although as you suggest, I'm not sure the average ifixit reader is ready for this kind of work.
I'm using an Acer Aspire ES1-533 laptop. I already have Ubuntu 18.04 installed and I'm really happy with the OS. Installing 18.04 was a nightmare, but I was able to do it by following this guide _installing_ubuntu_on_acer_aspire_es15/
However trying to install 20.04 or 22.04 has proven to be impossible. I have already tried the recommendations in this thread Problems installing Ubuntu on Acer laptop to no avail. Could you guys help me please? I'm very new to Linux, but Ubuntu 18.04 isn't supported anymore and I'd like to keep using it. Many thanks in advance.
Users may have different reasons for considering a RAM upgrade. Avid gamers may bump up the RAM on their Nitro 5 Gaming Laptop for the smoothest gameplay possible. Students with an Aspire 5 or Aspire Vero Green Laptop may require additional speed if they have more complex computing tasks like programming or graphic design. Perhaps you simply want a streamlined browsing and streaming experience on your Acer device. This guide will walk you through the process of upgrading RAM on your Acer laptop, from compatibility checks to safe installation steps.
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