Great video post! I was trying for 20 minutes to figure out why the top chassis could not come off, only to find that there were 2 SCREWS underneath the rubber rear feet!
I wish I could upgrade that 8GB only allocated to the OS. I just used a 16GB SD card. Worked like a charm. I followed what you said, and found a 512MB clip in it. weird! I could have sworn that the OS said 1GB
this video is reeally HELPFUL! nice video...and i got a question. 4g ram doesnt really work huh? cause i just bought one and try it the screen wont turn on. but when i put the original one back on. its work.. but i wonder if 2g will work?? please respond asap thanks!
@securityactive: Many thanks for this video. It is the best I have seen sofar since you carefully show where the screws are and what to do, while the actual unscrewing the screws is never shown. Thank you!
I can confirm that my Acer Aspire is constructed like this and has no trapdoor, I took out the 8GB SSD sometime ago and put an iPod style 60GB hdd in it, runs Windows 7 fine albeit a little slowly, currently it has 1GB ram but may take it to 1.5GB.
this video is either outdated or incorrect. It is not neceessarry to remove the keyboard to upgrade the Ram. See the superb video on you tube by mDevil.com or find it on the lists here
@goshmerlin I went to nDevil.com and his RAM upgrade for the D255 follows exactly the same process. I did this upgrade just now and there is no way to get the bottom off without taking the KB off. I did wonder why Acer didn't put the screws through the base plate, but they didn't. So KB has to come off.
I may attempt this when I have the time to sit do all the steps at once. I need to upgrade my Acer Aspite One ZG5. I got it for $99 at Goodwill because someone set (and forgot) a BIOS password). One flash later and I have a great little machine. :D
Perfect! Thank you so much for this presentation. Followed your tutorial to the T and successfully installed 1GB to make 1.5 in my son's netbook. I longed for the little trapdoor that other laptops have but I'm glad I got the opportunity to see how these things are built. Thanks again!
Hey I'm mighty apreciative of this video, I have a AOA 150 also, it varried a bit from yours but got it done, thank you very much for making my life just a little bit easier. now I have 1.5gb and 150HDD. running w7 and Jolicloud. Oh and this little bugger came with a battery issue that was taken care of with a bios flash, but then I bought a 6cell batt. on Ebay for 28 dlls and not I'm styling.
i just followed these directions to but a new bottom panel on my aspire. By the time i had the memory chip exposed, there were only six screws left. sigh.
Oh my God. That's major surgery there. I just wanted to upgrade the ram, not take apart the entire computer. Now I am having second thoughts about this
if you acctually read this, i need help with my acer aspire 5742G i've had it for about 3 weeks, and now the harddrive doesnt work or something, every time i try to start the computer it just enters "repair" mode and if i let it run for a day or two it doesnt do anything.... i dont know what to do and im not exacly great at computers, any tips?
@MrSoda157 I can only suggest you contact the support department from where you bought it, however I imagine they will just instruct you to use the recovery CD to return it back how it was on day 1.
@MrSoda157 Unless you already fixed your problem, this just happened to my Acer aspire desktop, I took it in and they said the hard-drive crashed, it costed me around $300 dollar's to replace it, but you could get it for less. Goodluck mate.
@MrSoda157 hey! i have the same laptop here! now your comment is 7 month old, what did you do? did you send it back? did they repair it? i personally had a problem with mine to, one USB port broke and i shipped it over. they wanted 30€ to ship it back unrepaired or 90€ to repair it... i sayd "fuck you" and let them send back the device. after glueing the usb port with some superglue it perfectly worked again, and there is no difference noticeble...
I don't have to do that all (suppose i have a newer version) so i have a little door in the back...Just one question...It has 1 gig memory but does it have room for another...card whatever (1+ 1 gig) or do i have to remove the old one and buy a new 2 gig one?Thanks!
Security Active: I used your video to help me with an issue I had with the power supply. I found a broken wire coming from the board to the female power connector (Charger). Resoldered it and put it all back together. It works once again. Thank you! If not for your video I may have broken the plastic while trying to access the internals. I really appreciate your efforts to help others.
@ivorbggn not on the original release version, which is what this demo is for.
I believe they may have changed the design. If this model had a door to give direct access to the memory it would have been used, and people would not be looking for a video on the memory upgrade.
@ivorbggn My Acer Aspire One (1995) has a little door with 2 screws but inside there are no connectors or attachments. I will follow the video's great instructions.
@ivorbggn that is not true for all acer aspire one pcs. I opened that little door but there was no such access. I had to do like they show in this video.
@ivorbggn i have the model he's using here, and there isn't a memory panel on the bottom. For whatever reason they must have redesigned the motherboard or something but not the case because i actually have a panel you can take off on the bottom but there isn't anything at all under it.
my aspire looks alot different on the bottom. i have separate hatches for each of the slots, including the harddrive hatch. could it be mine is a newer model?
@lolnumpty ,,,like i said,before.Iwouldn't buy a thousand dollar one,cause mine works great,and the price 349,or something like that.Thank you God!! he's so good to me.
Thats a rediculous amount of work to upgrade ram, Luckily my netbook uses a sliding lock to remove the door covering the ram on the underside,.30 second install .
Can someone tell me if a Acer Aspire One AO533-13083 are good?? I just wanna use the netbook to be in msn messenger webcam and see pictures. If this netbook is good enough for this task??? grettings from PERU
@sijmenjan (Chuckling.) You're not kidding! I have two 1GB sticks that I just took out of my son's eMachines Black Friday Walmart laptop and had planned on upgrading a friend's Acer Aspire One AOD255-2509 Netbook from 1GB to 2GB, but if this is what I'd be up against, I'm throwing in the towel before I even make the attempt. (And I also understand that opening up the Netbook voids the warranty (not confirmed))
@MrVijfhoek Thank you for the information. I don't know if my friend's netbook is from the newer production run, so I think I will still pass on the attempt to upgrade the RAM.
there are two screws on the bottom and you can uncover the ram and change the chip in 2 min. lol there is even a picture of the ram chip on its access door !!! wow
@securityactive any chance that you can place the website in the Description area? so we can go to directly to the pay pal page,so people can click on it, and buy it?,or maybe also the hard drives for the ZG5?,some of us who bought a ZG5, have only 7GB of hard drive space...
@securityactive : Nice video.. phew.. i must say, it was quite alot of work getting into the ram chip. Now that i have opened my white Acer aspire, i need to buy a ram dimm. Could you please tell me the EXACT dimm u used so i can get the right one. I am looking for a 1gig dim, so i will end up with 1.5gigis. Thanks :)
NOTE TO ALL: be SUPER careful with the monitor cable... even though I was, it is SO fragile that one of the wires inside mine broke. The cable is about $40 to replace and very hard to find.
thanks for the guide. i don't understand why they made the design so difficult.
a question: how many ram slots are there in total? Is the 1GB that come with the netbook can't be removed (attached permanently to the motherboard?)
i normally get mine from dabs. sometimes, they are expensive, but sometimes, i found a good deal there. also, my other favourite shop is an online shop with HQ near heathrow airport (forgot the name, but i think it was xtremepc or something like that.)
@securityactive thx for the response. i also saw one of your comment that your acer is limited to 1.5GB. how do i determine if my acer has this limitation. it came with 1GB memory with win xp. as far as i know, the licencing for certain windows such as starter edition limits to certain hardware. does this mean if i am not limited by software i can use more ram? i am using win7 home basic (from south east asia, and certainly not available in UK), which limits RAM to 4GB.
@erick36594 My Acer Aspire 5100-5455 that I bought for around $600 brand new, was pre-installed with Windows Vista. It has:
1.8 GHz AMD Turion x2, 1 GB RAM (256 MB of the RAM is used for graphics by default, so I am left with 768 MB RAM for Vista) ... Disk drive stopped working 1 month after I bought it. It overheats enough to where the stickers on the bottom can't be read, The left touchpad button is broken, the screen won't turn on, and the batter lasts for only 15 minutes. I HATE ACER!
@erick36594 Also, the Card reader only works on a good day. 2 of the 3 USB ports only run USB 1.1 only 1 of the 3 uses USB 2.0 ?!!!! WTF I got ripped off. I treated this laptop with soooo much care, and everything broke for no reason. most of the problems I have had, others have had with this same model. Oh yeah, and the biggest problem of all: I power up the laptop. The BIOS gives me an error message with 2 VERY LOUD beeps, saying there was some type of error on the board itself!
Don't ever buy an acer computer thier warranty division in Texas will make anything up to pull money out of you, when i send my acer one for repair they siad they found moisture residue and wanter money from me for repair, when there was nothing spilled on the computer,, case 1-67z71b
@ToLiveAndDieIn1984 I had the same problem with mine. I Formated the drive and reinstalled a fresh copy of windows 7, It's WAY faster than when I first used it and I can stream HD video
XP with how much has been added to it over the years, now runs best with a MINIMUM of 1GB ram. In other words, just sitting at the desktop, depending on what other software is installed, it could be using around .6 to 1GB of memory from just sitting. Adding more memory means being able to do more stuff at once. In regards to gaming, more memory helps but its not the only thing that improves gaming frames/second and graphics.
Great video! I had to disassemble two of these and this came in handy. I had to take the HDD out of one and put it in another to see if it would boot off that drive.
This video is useful for getting at the HDD as well as the memory because the HDD is located right next to the SODIMM slot.
This video is pretty relavent to disassembling an A105 8.9" incase you are wanting to know. (thats the model I had to disassemble and reassemble...twice).
RAM increases total system speed. RAM, Randomly Accesses Memory (Note the abbreviation is RAM) randomly stores memory that your computer can access much more quickly then if it tired to read that from the harddrive.
RAM makes ALL games run better.
And certain games and operating systems may require more RAM.
E Recovery did not work & Alt + f10 did not work ether, to find Erecovery was not installed , Acer Aspire one aoa110 because it turned into a Brick useless.I erased the partition & installed Windows Xp Professional. then I went to Acers Website & downloaded all the Hard drives to a Disc form another computer , then Installed them, it gave me a bunch of issues of freezing up. ( Any Ideas ))))????????
Thanks for the video. I have Windows 7 and Office 2010 and it needs 1.5GB of RAM to stop thrashing that it is doing with 1GB. It runs good now, I want it to run great.
@neilgerald77 no you dont have to do all this junk with the 11.6 inch or 10.1 inch...(thankfully) u just have to remove a door on the bottom and replace it not all this
We have the Acer Aspire One D250 (ultra-thin version) and I was planning to follow this video for installing my 2GB module. I flipped the Netbook over and saw a door! Took the door off and there was the old RAM. Just popped the old one out, put the new one in, and closed the door. Whoo-hoo! Much better! :)
@kody1234567891011: If you post your email address, I can email you a photo.
But really, you'll have to have a screwdriver to take the back cover off. If you already have the screwdriver, just start taking one of the doors off. If you see your memory module underneath it, that's probably the right door. If not, open another door.
If this is too much for you, I'd suggest taking your laptop to someone qualified.
It should not be fused. Take the rubber feet off and remove the screws under them. It takes a gentle pry to get the bezel snap up. Just be sure all the screws are out of it, both under the keyboard and on the back.
dude you saved my ass if you want to reset bios on acer aspire ZG5 that they way at the end you find the BIOS battary remove it wait little bit and then put all again back and done, my problem was to open it but when i seen the video it done it Thanks a lot man :D
this only has one memory slot right? so to make it 2gb, i would have to buy a 2 gig ram stick right? or does it have 2 memory slots and i can just buy another 1 gig and it'll become 2gig?
cause if it only has one slot, then no thanks, cause 2 gig ram stick cost 45$ +.
Also, purchase some capton or mylar tape, remove the LCD cable from the mainboard. Tape around the connector and replace. Stops the LCD panel from shorting the board and getting half a display.
Love this song.
adeelahsan 2 weeks ago
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i have been lookig at rams for my aspire one happy..and some rams for it are listed as 200 pin and some 204 pin does this matter ,,,,thanks
jamesquicksilver 1 month ago
It has the same CPU as my Netbook :D
MegaExtremeGames 1 month ago
Great video post! I was trying for 20 minutes to figure out why the top chassis could not come off, only to find that there were 2 SCREWS underneath the rubber rear feet!
JunglisticOne 1 month ago
I wish I could upgrade that 8GB only allocated to the OS. I just used a 16GB SD card. Worked like a charm. I followed what you said, and found a 512MB clip in it. weird! I could have sworn that the OS said 1GB
JunglisticOne 1 month ago
can i do it also to my Acer Aspire One 531h??
Can i follow the same way or are there any diferences?
I bought it on 2009
fotarazlymp 1 month ago
Great video, helped me lots. Thanks for your assistance!
fonixmunkee 2 months ago
thanks man
BallisticBrian 2 months ago
Ummm, I have the exact same model as in the video, but mine came with 1 GB of RAM...
So, can I add 512 MB to it or should I not even bother?
Thanks!
Xtermy 2 months ago
this video is reeally HELPFUL! nice video...and i got a question. 4g ram doesnt really work huh? cause i just bought one and try it the screen wont turn on. but when i put the original one back on. its work.. but i wonder if 2g will work?? please respond asap thanks!
gabbergabber 4 months ago
@gabbergabber It supports 1.5Gb max. So it have 512 soldered to the board, so you can only add a 1Gb stick of ram.
securityactive 4 months ago
@securityactive
thanks alot bro for maken my time worth it. lucky i didnt buy 2+ gigs.! now my netbook running great! thanks alot for tutorial! PROPS!
gabbergabber 4 months ago
@securityactive
thanks for saving me some time! d=] sucks that it can take only 1g =[
gabbergabber 4 months ago
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OrbinOz 4 months ago
@securityactive: Many thanks for this video. It is the best I have seen sofar since you carefully show where the screws are and what to do, while the actual unscrewing the screws is never shown. Thank you!
ImpracticalJokes 4 months ago
ummm... this computer almost has more ram than hard drive space!
fauldies 4 months ago
How much ram will these take, and what type? Thanks!
northpaw2000 5 months ago
look at the defenceless small laptop hit that with an jack hammer XD
Gamet00b 6 months ago
Holy cow! I might as well learn brain surgery. It's just as complicated.
NoirHammer 6 months ago
i'm going to upgrade my netbook to 80GB storage and 1,5gb RAM
CDA441 7 months ago
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PullusPardus 7 months ago
I can confirm that my Acer Aspire is constructed like this and has no trapdoor, I took out the 8GB SSD sometime ago and put an iPod style 60GB hdd in it, runs Windows 7 fine albeit a little slowly, currently it has 1GB ram but may take it to 1.5GB.
g0fvt 7 months ago
this video is either outdated or incorrect. It is not neceessarry to remove the keyboard to upgrade the Ram. See the superb video on you tube by mDevil.com or find it on the lists here
goshmerlin 9 months ago
@goshmerlin I went to nDevil.com and his RAM upgrade for the D255 follows exactly the same process. I did this upgrade just now and there is no way to get the bottom off without taking the KB off. I did wonder why Acer didn't put the screws through the base plate, but they didn't. So KB has to come off.
swithnell 6 months ago
very detailed. thx
Karletto555 9 months ago
I may attempt this when I have the time to sit do all the steps at once. I need to upgrade my Acer Aspite One ZG5. I got it for $99 at Goodwill because someone set (and forgot) a BIOS password). One flash later and I have a great little machine. :D
DarkN00b2006 9 months ago
Thanx just upgraded my old acer aspire one as per this video, it workes great Thanx
Lars
larsfunder 10 months ago
Disassemble the entire netbook just to upgrade the RAM. Well done Acer... Retards.
Keruaran 10 months ago
what kind of XP themes was that at the end?
KaxiLaxi 10 months ago
Perfect! Thank you so much for this presentation. Followed your tutorial to the T and successfully installed 1GB to make 1.5 in my son's netbook. I longed for the little trapdoor that other laptops have but I'm glad I got the opportunity to see how these things are built. Thanks again!
alexcordero9 10 months ago
What is the total amount of RAM there can be ?
1.5GB or 2GB ? or else...
Vagextrol 11 months ago
Thank you for this. Perfect.
eddiebernard 11 months ago
i whatched this on my acer aspire one
justinfroot 11 months ago
wow, this so hard, my toshiba only need 2 screw on the bottom or the back of it
zionbnr32 1 year ago
im on mine right now and check out the poll on my channel!
beanmaster50 1 year ago
I just wanted to say thanks. I just upgraded one model AOA110 for a friend. I'd have been completely stuck without this .
sk8tc3ll 1 year ago
Hey I'm mighty apreciative of this video, I have a AOA 150 also, it varried a bit from yours but got it done, thank you very much for making my life just a little bit easier. now I have 1.5gb and 150HDD. running w7 and Jolicloud. Oh and this little bugger came with a battery issue that was taken care of with a bios flash, but then I bought a 6cell batt. on Ebay for 28 dlls and not I'm styling.
mamicas 1 year ago
at the end you wrote you used pc5300? is it pc25300? is there a difference?
badnewspunk 1 year ago
i just followed these directions to but a new bottom panel on my aspire. By the time i had the memory chip exposed, there were only six screws left. sigh.
LordOrwell2 1 year ago
Oh my God. That's major surgery there. I just wanted to upgrade the ram, not take apart the entire computer. Now I am having second thoughts about this
AbuBishir 1 year ago
I bought the acer aspire one series battery from doodon.com
mzeeshan00 1 year ago
if you acctually read this, i need help with my acer aspire 5742G i've had it for about 3 weeks, and now the harddrive doesnt work or something, every time i try to start the computer it just enters "repair" mode and if i let it run for a day or two it doesnt do anything.... i dont know what to do and im not exacly great at computers, any tips?
MrSoda157 1 year ago 3
@MrSoda157 I can only suggest you contact the support department from where you bought it, however I imagine they will just instruct you to use the recovery CD to return it back how it was on day 1.
Hope you get it working.
securityactive 1 year ago
@securityactive great... 4th time im there with a acer with harddrive problems x ) fml.
MrSoda157 1 year ago
@MrSoda157 Unless you already fixed your problem, this just happened to my Acer aspire desktop, I took it in and they said the hard-drive crashed, it costed me around $300 dollar's to replace it, but you could get it for less. Goodluck mate.
Chazzforrs 6 months ago
@MrSoda157 hey! i have the same laptop here! now your comment is 7 month old, what did you do? did you send it back? did they repair it? i personally had a problem with mine to, one USB port broke and i shipped it over. they wanted 30€ to ship it back unrepaired or 90€ to repair it... i sayd "fuck you" and let them send back the device. after glueing the usb port with some superglue it perfectly worked again, and there is no difference noticeble...
i hope you have better exp. with the service,,,
muh1h1 5 months ago
excellent video... many thanks works just the way you described it
ixlr81967 1 year ago
someone has signed in on your msn xD
blurrywall88 1 year ago
you got fat fucking fingers..
Zomb1eX 1 year ago
sorry man ican't do it i might damage my laptop
marcotic1010 1 year ago
@marcotic1010 does ur acer have the right and left click on the side or the bottom of the trackpads
xRAGExxLYNX 1 year ago
wow this is alot of shit to just upgrade the memory?????
440sac 1 year ago
I don't have to do that all (suppose i have a newer version) so i have a little door in the back...Just one question...It has 1 gig memory but does it have room for another...card whatever (1+ 1 gig) or do i have to remove the old one and buy a new 2 gig one?Thanks!
Estonian7 1 year ago
Security Active: I used your video to help me with an issue I had with the power supply. I found a broken wire coming from the board to the female power connector (Charger). Resoldered it and put it all back together. It works once again. Thank you! If not for your video I may have broken the plastic while trying to access the internals. I really appreciate your efforts to help others.
grayjc 1 year ago
Worked perfectly
thanks for posting this
too bad the aspire can only be upgraded to 1.5 gb from 0.5gb
I did a desktop ram upgrade- this was harder but doable
spilmazed 1 year ago
Great Video!, Saved us a lot of time and labor knowing exactly what to remove.
We Thank You!
RecoveryTTA 1 year ago
hey thanks for the video. i didn't knew how to open my aspire1 keyboard but thanks to you i was just able to open and clean it!
RaverWild 1 year ago
Someone who knows if I could use a 2 GB RAM on an Aspire One 110 with 204 pins?
raskrullestol 1 year ago
any chance I can put an intel i7 processor in lol?
TielProductions 1 year ago
Appreciate the video! Just bought a used ZG5 and this video was very useful in helping me to figure out the memory. What a pain!
jwbonez 1 year ago
Um, turn the thing over and you've got a little door that you just take four screws out of, and just slot the 2GB's in. It takes under 5 minutes...
You can do it the hard way as in this video if you'd like to see how your computer is stuck together, but probably not worth it...
ivorbggn 1 year ago
@ivorbggn not on the original release version, which is what this demo is for.
I believe they may have changed the design. If this model had a door to give direct access to the memory it would have been used, and people would not be looking for a video on the memory upgrade.
securityactive 1 year ago 18
@ivorbggn My Acer Aspire One (1995) has a little door with 2 screws but inside there are no connectors or attachments. I will follow the video's great instructions.
doctorbobdc 1 year ago
@ivorbggn that is not true for all acer aspire one pcs. I opened that little door but there was no such access. I had to do like they show in this video.
Foxbat1155 1 year ago
@ivorbggn i have the model he's using here, and there isn't a memory panel on the bottom. For whatever reason they must have redesigned the motherboard or something but not the case because i actually have a panel you can take off on the bottom but there isn't anything at all under it.
LordOrwell2 1 year ago
@ivorbggn The door on many of the Aspire Ones just goes nowhere as far as I can tell. I had to follow this procedure as well.
binary223 5 months ago
That must be the model Verizon give out. Mine came with 150gb.
MAXdaWISE 1 year ago
what ram is needed?
Bogomolets 1 year ago
My acer just down right sucks!>:(
Josewazheretoday 1 year ago
@Josewazheretoday ur's cause mine works better than those 1000, dollar ones.
TheWillie2005 1 year ago
@TheWillie2005 that explains so much!
Josewazheretoday 1 year ago
my aspire looks alot different on the bottom. i have separate hatches for each of the slots, including the harddrive hatch. could it be mine is a newer model?
paratrev 1 year ago
MIGIT
xChibbit 1 year ago
im going to get one of these if i find someone that will reply, and that is happy with this notebook
lolnumpty 1 year ago
@lolnumpty ,,,like i said,before.Iwouldn't buy a thousand dollar one,cause mine works great,and the price 349,or something like that.Thank you God!! he's so good to me.
TheWillie2005 1 year ago
is it possible to bump it up to 2 gigs? i'm already at 1gb and i need two, to run protools.
Inspirmentalist 1 year ago
In your AAO is 2 RAM ports ,because 1.5 GB of RAM doesn't be. After 1 GB RAM goes 2 GB RAM (but no 1.5 GB) :)
Sorry for my bad English. :)
Userizz 1 year ago
@Userizz Sorry you are incorrect.
There is 512MB soldered to the motherboard that can not be removed.
The is an empty SO-DIMM slot and I installed a 1GB module, that is a total of 1.5GB RAM.
securityactive 1 year ago 4
@Userizz shared Graphical card ram?
pray2win 1 year ago
@Userizz Dude i think he has the older acer aspire one. the one with the 500MB ram
rsparth 1 year ago
Thats a rediculous amount of work to upgrade ram, Luckily my netbook uses a sliding lock to remove the door covering the ram on the underside,.30 second install .
rnaodmletetr 1 year ago
can anyone tell me where can i find a youtube downloader? is the one from aletrvista a good one ( for windows xp) ? or safe?? thank you!! :)
LivingInTheDMZ96 1 year ago
Can someone tell me if a Acer Aspire One AO533-13083 are good?? I just wanna use the netbook to be in msn messenger webcam and see pictures. If this netbook is good enough for this task??? grettings from PERU
Avaldivia74 1 year ago
@Avaldivia74 mine works great at videos or pictures,very clear.
TheWillie2005 1 year ago
It looks like Acer took a piece of RAM and build a netbook around it...
sijmenjan 1 year ago 43
@sijmenjan you are correct sir
LordOrwell2 1 year ago
@sijmenjan (Chuckling.) You're not kidding! I have two 1GB sticks that I just took out of my son's eMachines Black Friday Walmart laptop and had planned on upgrading a friend's Acer Aspire One AOD255-2509 Netbook from 1GB to 2GB, but if this is what I'd be up against, I'm throwing in the towel before I even make the attempt. (And I also understand that opening up the Netbook voids the warranty (not confirmed))
tjs1957tube 10 months ago
@tjs1957tube It has been fixed in the newer revisions (sadly/happily enough).
MrVijfhoek 10 months ago
@MrVijfhoek Thank you for the information. I don't know if my friend's netbook is from the newer production run, so I think I will still pass on the attempt to upgrade the RAM.
Be well.
tjs1957tube 10 months ago
@tjs1957tube Plus, only one of the two memory sticks are upgradeable, one is soldered/glued/whatevered to the motherboard.
MrVijfhoek 10 months ago
@sijmenjan Yeah, but, the revisions later on fixed that... the one I have has the little door at the bottom for upgrading the RAM...
bajan13k 6 months ago
HELL...
iatethetv 1 year ago
thanks a million for this video
helloweenk 1 year ago
you are stupit
MrTutorial2 1 year ago
i can't for the life of me get the cover off from around the hinges :S
therealwillie 1 year ago
nevermind... fucking screws in the feet
therealwillie 1 year ago
there are two screws on the bottom and you can uncover the ram and change the chip in 2 min. lol there is even a picture of the ram chip on its access door !!! wow
tsmith352 1 year ago
@tsmith352 This is on the new version. My guide is for the original Acer Aspire One
securityactive 1 year ago 6
@securityactive any chance that you can place the website in the Description area? so we can go to directly to the pay pal page,so people can click on it, and buy it?,or maybe also the hard drives for the ZG5?,some of us who bought a ZG5, have only 7GB of hard drive space...
Elevationary 1 year ago
@securityactive : Nice video.. phew.. i must say, it was quite alot of work getting into the ram chip. Now that i have opened my white Acer aspire, i need to buy a ram dimm. Could you please tell me the EXACT dimm u used so i can get the right one. I am looking for a 1gig dim, so i will end up with 1.5gigis. Thanks :)
shendrew 1 year ago
@shendrew As per the video I just used a 1GB SO-DIMM Module PC5300 667Mhz 200pin module.
securityactive 1 year ago
Great Vid Shit cam
Danielhsv0 1 year ago
man, dat's a magic ass screwdriver.
Zito773 1 year ago
Hold shit....they should just put a sticker on the backside that says FUKIN FORGET ABOUT IT.
kronnyqq 1 year ago
The ABSOLUTE HARDEST PART of dealing with these MFers is GETTING THE MOTHEREFFING KEYBOARD RIBBON CABLES RE-ATTACHED when you are done.
It is almost bloody goddamned impossible.
mschneider18xx 1 year ago
does anyone know if you can fit a hdd in these net books?
scruffballs 1 year ago
Does anyone know if you can fit a hdd in these net books?
scruffballs 1 year ago
Your having a laugh, i thought it was well easier than that. oh well just have to put up with the laptop the way it is.
MegaShakeit 1 year ago
NOTE TO ALL: be SUPER careful with the monitor cable... even though I was, it is SO fragile that one of the wires inside mine broke. The cable is about $40 to replace and very hard to find.
jojidu 1 year ago
thanks for the guide. i don't understand why they made the design so difficult.
a question: how many ram slots are there in total? Is the 1GB that come with the netbook can't be removed (attached permanently to the motherboard?)
i normally get mine from dabs. sometimes, they are expensive, but sometimes, i found a good deal there. also, my other favourite shop is an online shop with HQ near heathrow airport (forgot the name, but i think it was xtremepc or something like that.)
wtanoto 1 year ago
@wtanoto On mine 512MB is physically mounted on the motherboard, this leaves 1 SO-DIMM expansion slot remaining.
securityactive 1 year ago
@securityactive thx for the response. i also saw one of your comment that your acer is limited to 1.5GB. how do i determine if my acer has this limitation. it came with 1GB memory with win xp. as far as i know, the licencing for certain windows such as starter edition limits to certain hardware. does this mean if i am not limited by software i can use more ram? i am using win7 home basic (from south east asia, and certainly not available in UK), which limits RAM to 4GB.
wtanoto 1 year ago
@wtanoto I am not 100% sure on the later versions of the Aspire One, but the memory limitation is set by the bios, not the operating system.
I would assume yours is also limited to the bios only allowing 1.5Gb
securityactive 1 year ago
I HATE ACER.
TheGreatBunghole16 1 year ago
@TheGreatBunghole16 why?
erick36594 1 year ago
@erick36594 My Acer Aspire 5100-5455 that I bought for around $600 brand new, was pre-installed with Windows Vista. It has:
1.8 GHz AMD Turion x2, 1 GB RAM (256 MB of the RAM is used for graphics by default, so I am left with 768 MB RAM for Vista) ... Disk drive stopped working 1 month after I bought it. It overheats enough to where the stickers on the bottom can't be read, The left touchpad button is broken, the screen won't turn on, and the batter lasts for only 15 minutes. I HATE ACER!
TheGreatBunghole16 1 year ago
@erick36594 Also, the Card reader only works on a good day. 2 of the 3 USB ports only run USB 1.1 only 1 of the 3 uses USB 2.0 ?!!!! WTF I got ripped off. I treated this laptop with soooo much care, and everything broke for no reason. most of the problems I have had, others have had with this same model. Oh yeah, and the biggest problem of all: I power up the laptop. The BIOS gives me an error message with 2 VERY LOUD beeps, saying there was some type of error on the board itself!
TheGreatBunghole16 1 year ago
@TheGreatBunghole16 wow thats a lot of problems my school gave me one free
erick36594 1 year ago
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turbotrixjr 1 year ago
where is the cd drive on an aspire one... still looking
Romanianloop 1 year ago
@Romanianloop It doesnt have one mate. Most netbooks dont.
securityactive 1 year ago
@Romanianloop have you checked under the any key? it might be hiding there lol
ST0N3R420X420 1 year ago
@Romanianloop there isn't one
bluehazzy 1 year ago
@Romanianloop it do not have one. no netbooks do. the cd drive would take up the whole thing
kx65fast 1 year ago
i couldnt do it....
sticking to MAC from now on.
GREAT video though
follownotrends 1 year ago
So this upgraded yours to 2 gb RAM?
ABCxJAMMIN 1 year ago
is it normal NOT TO BE ABLE to listen music and youtube with acer aspire one 250d ?
i have 1gb ram, just installed win xp, and can only play music if it's on a flash drive.
cannot watch youtube clips, it's all jittery. pls help
ToLiveAndDieIn1984 1 year ago
@ToLiveAndDieIn1984 I had the same problem with mine. I Formated the drive and reinstalled a fresh copy of windows 7, It's WAY faster than when I first used it and I can stream HD video
geekyjoncool 1 year ago
In regards to the reasoning of upgrading ram:
XP with how much has been added to it over the years, now runs best with a MINIMUM of 1GB ram. In other words, just sitting at the desktop, depending on what other software is installed, it could be using around .6 to 1GB of memory from just sitting. Adding more memory means being able to do more stuff at once. In regards to gaming, more memory helps but its not the only thing that improves gaming frames/second and graphics.
rolfcm106 1 year ago
Great video! I had to disassemble two of these and this came in handy. I had to take the HDD out of one and put it in another to see if it would boot off that drive.
This video is useful for getting at the HDD as well as the memory because the HDD is located right next to the SODIMM slot.
This video is pretty relavent to disassembling an A105 8.9" incase you are wanting to know. (thats the model I had to disassemble and reassemble...twice).
rolfcm106 1 year ago
very good video, i like it
unnameddd12345 1 year ago
Thank God the D250 isnt like this, thanks to those lil panels on the underside :)
Nice video
Dualor 1 year ago
Thanks! This video saved me hours of frustration.
robstu67 1 year ago 2
That sucks!
On the 10in new versions, there is a slot on the underside. Remove one screw and you have access to the ram!
fishngreen 1 year ago
So what is the major improvement in usability with the ram upgrade??
What software requires the extra ram??
Will it be able to play games like W.O.W. or Day of Defeat Source??
McDummie 1 year ago
RAM increases total system speed. RAM, Randomly Accesses Memory (Note the abbreviation is RAM) randomly stores memory that your computer can access much more quickly then if it tired to read that from the harddrive.
RAM makes ALL games run better.
And certain games and operating systems may require more RAM.
Cooley35 1 year ago
what is the exact ram stick do you have?
hiracheta91 1 year ago
nevermind its ur drive lol
iYoungMrCjay7 2 years ago
this only has one ram slot?
lucirz 2 years ago
Correct
securityactive 2 years ago
damn that sucks, that means i have to buy a 2 gig ram stick if i want two gig :(. 2gig ram costs alot lol
lucirz 2 years ago
Not all the Aspire Ones support 2GB, mine only supports a max of 1.5GB, so make sure you do your research.
securityactive 2 years ago
how come its says you have 8 gig of ram???
iYoungMrCjay7 2 years ago
Thats 8GB SSD Hard Disk
securityactive 2 years ago
lol mine 120
iYoungMrCjay7 2 years ago
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E Recovery did not work & Alt + f10 did not work ether, to find Erecovery was not installed , Acer Aspire one aoa110 because it turned into a Brick useless.I erased the partition & installed Windows Xp Professional. then I went to Acers Website & downloaded all the Hard drives to a Disc form another computer , then Installed them, it gave me a bunch of issues of freezing up. ( Any Ideas ))))????????
camboy1132 2 years ago
i think i'll get a pro to do it cuz id fuck something up trying to do this
obpride24 2 years ago
Thanks for the video. I have Windows 7 and Office 2010 and it needs 1.5GB of RAM to stop thrashing that it is doing with 1GB. It runs good now, I want it to run great.
71DatsunZ 2 years ago
i ot the aspire one 11.6 inch is it the same?!
neilgerald77 2 years ago
@neilgerald77 no you dont have to do all this junk with the 11.6 inch or 10.1 inch...(thankfully) u just have to remove a door on the bottom and replace it not all this
jpz0rz3z 2 years ago
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why dont you just put an sd card in? waaaaaaaaaay easier
jojorockshard0g8 2 years ago
An SD card wouldnt have increased memory.
SD card will increase storage, and that was not the objective.
securityactive 2 years ago
momory and storge are different. memory is "ram" storge is harddrive space/data space, SD card would increase storage
Jamessharpshooter 2 years ago
One important addition: if you have a 3G version, remove the 3G module that can be accessed from the back first!
YellowOnline 2 years ago
We have the Acer Aspire One D250 (ultra-thin version) and I was planning to follow this video for installing my 2GB module. I flipped the Netbook over and saw a door! Took the door off and there was the old RAM. Just popped the old one out, put the new one in, and closed the door. Whoo-hoo! Much better! :)
jp2mail 2 years ago
@jp2mail wait, i have the same kind as you, what do u have to do? i want to upgrade my RAM, but it dont wnana take it apart.
kody1234567891011 2 years ago
Sorry this has taken so long.
My machine just has a small door on the back that is secured with one screw. Take that off, and pop open the access bay.
jp2tube 2 years ago
yeah please.. i have 3 doors. 2 small and one big.. i just need to know which one is to the RAM
kody1234567891011 2 years ago
@kody1234567891011: If you post your email address, I can email you a photo.
But really, you'll have to have a screwdriver to take the back cover off. If you already have the screwdriver, just start taking one of the doors off. If you see your memory module underneath it, that's probably the right door. If not, open another door.
If this is too much for you, I'd suggest taking your laptop to someone qualified.
jp2tube 2 years ago
haha i found it.. thanks though=[)
kody1234567891011 2 years ago
@kody1234567891011 middle one
jpz0rz3z 2 years ago
@jp2mail good for you
Can you send me a pic of the bottom of your computer?
i hope i have the same kind as you
its an aspire one d250 also but some are made differently
TrevorKyllonen 2 years ago
Where should I send the photo to? I tried posting a link last night, but it did not "stick".
jp2tube 2 years ago
Gave up on mine, got the keyboard off but the bezel refused to come apart at the back by the screen. Guess it is somehow fused to the chassis?
mikeyp7771 2 years ago
It should not be fused. Take the rubber feet off and remove the screws under them. It takes a gentle pry to get the bezel snap up. Just be sure all the screws are out of it, both under the keyboard and on the back.
Klippencott 2 years ago
@mikeyp7771 one thing i've used is a guitar pick, its flexible and thin, yet strong enough to pry with. Works everytime for me :)
itstali25 2 years ago
dude you saved my ass if you want to reset bios on acer aspire ZG5 that they way at the end you find the BIOS battary remove it wait little bit and then put all again back and done, my problem was to open it but when i seen the video it done it Thanks a lot man :D
giarosenko1000 2 years ago
cant you make a tutorial of how to put in a bigger SSD?
douwethaman 2 years ago
Upgrading the HD would be a very similar process, as taking it all apart is obviously the same. The tricky part is finding a suitable replacement.
Many have used a ZIF connector and a PATA drive from an ipod.
securityactive 2 years ago
thanks m8!
douwethaman 2 years ago
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Thanks for this tutorial !
webREKLAMA 2 years ago
much easyer with a desktop or a laptop.
Lloydo3 2 years ago
Thanks a lot man you saved me your hands are big lol
aluurchin2 2 years ago
Works great, save for the fact that on minute 1:10 or so, he left out mentioning the the removal of a couple more screws.
cuyaya 2 years ago
thanks juu
sakkurae 2 years ago
he's a professional mime
shinviroz 2 years ago
what is the thing on the back that you can open
yourjealousofmyhair 2 years ago
this only has one memory slot right? so to make it 2gb, i would have to buy a 2 gig ram stick right? or does it have 2 memory slots and i can just buy another 1 gig and it'll become 2gig?
cause if it only has one slot, then no thanks, cause 2 gig ram stick cost 45$ +.
lucirz 2 years ago
its maks 1.5 gig ram on acer aspire one
douwethaman 2 years ago
Also, purchase some capton or mylar tape, remove the LCD cable from the mainboard. Tape around the connector and replace. Stops the LCD panel from shorting the board and getting half a display.
Willifrex 2 years ago