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Acer Aspire 5570z Memory update!

post #1 of 8
2/26/09 at 7:46pm
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Hello,

Well sir, I need help, an Acer Aspire 5570z was gifted to me by my father and I own it since 1.5 Year and it works cool, the notebook came with 512MB RAM and I updated it to 512x2 a year back and every thing worked cool, but now , I finally decided to buy a 2 GB RAM, I bought a 2 GB DDR RAM and inserted in my laptop , the laptop works good but problem is that now when I go to CMOS setup, it shows up as Extended memory to 2048MB but I own Windows Vista Ultimate (French) 32BITS ; but my Windows only shows up as I have only 1.00GB of memory!

Please help, why my memory RAM is not being showed in Windows??

Please help, Thanks,
Faisal!
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post #2 of 8
2/26/09 at 9:25pm
Have you installed Vista SP1?

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post #3 of 8
2/26/09 at 9:57pm
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Have you installed Vista SP1?

cheers ...

Nope, I am running Windows Vista Ultimate (French) without any Service Pack (SP) 2006 Edition!

Looking forward for help,
Faisal!
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post #4 of 8
2/26/09 at 11:36pm
SP1 allows Windows (Vista) to see the full supported RAM number, but taking advantage of the whole thing is another story.

I recommend going for the Service Pack as soon as you can. It contains other improvements as well.

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post #5 of 8
2/27/09 at 12:02am
sp1 will show the total amount of memory where non sp1 will show available memory.

one more thing...Are you running 2 sticks of 1GB memory, or just 1 stick of 2GB memory?
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post #6 of 8
2/27/09 at 11:47am
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sp1 will show the total amount of memory where non sp1 will show available memory.

one more thing...Are you running 2 sticks of 1GB memory, or just 1 stick of 2GB memory?
I am running 1 stick of 2 GB and well I downloaded the SP1 from their website and installed on my system and now I can see RAM memory as 2.0 GB but I have a small problem!

You know I am using that Vista gadjet which shows up the CPU and RAM usage, so when before I had 1 GB and I used to start my Vista it used to show that 50% RAM usage with standard start up without launching any extra software!

NOW as I installed SP1 and I can see RAM as 2.0 GB but now also when I start Windows it shows up as 50% of RAM used (without launching any other software), I have not installed any thing at all,

Can you help me on this???

FAISAL!
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post #7 of 8
2/27/09 at 8:30pm
That is normal. Vista would grab any available memory and manages it. The more ram you have, the more Vista will take advantage of it and manages system processes better. And when other apps need the ram, Vista will release it to them efficiently.

You will definitively notice better performances than before you added the ram.

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post #8 of 8
2/27/09 at 8:32pm
i second that. with 4GB it still eats up quite a bit. however, performance is nice and speedy.
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