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Originally Posted by jordinospam
Hi all
At the Noteboot Review forum I was told that this motherboard's BIOS might not have such an option. I was also told to try a 64-bit kernel, which I did, to no avail.
I started then looking for information on my motherboard, and that's how I found out that, apparently, the problem appears to be the chipset on my motherboard (Mobile Intel 945PM Express Chipset) which, according to this report ( http://www.tomsguide.com/us/hp-dv100...iew-679-6.html), is not "validated" to support all 4Gb @ 667 MHz, but should support all 4 Gb @ 533 MHz. The same is reported on the specs table in this report ( http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mob...no-duo_7.html#) I must say I'm a bit skeptical that it will work, but I want to try a slower memory anyway.
I sent back my 2x2Gb@667MHz and, the vendor said, my 2x2Gb@533MHz will probably ship tomorrow.
I'll come back with the result. Whish me luck :-)
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Hi all.
The modules arrived. Unfortunately, there's no difference with respect to the faster ones: I still get only 3113448 Kb of memory (about 3040.5 Mb or 2.97 Gb) in my system, according to "cat /proc/meminfo". The BIOS sees 3071 Mb (2.999 Gb), same as with the faster modules.
My system does not seem support 4Gb of memory. This in spite of the specs and the fact that Acer Help Desk assured me this laptop supports all 4Gb.
So this is it. I'll keep the modules since I'll use the extra 0.97Gb my system sees, and hope that I'll find something that will make my system use a bit more or the memory I installed.
Best regards
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