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Kingmax is a no-no

Whatever you do don't buy the Kingmax brand 1GB. I've been through 2 through the Egg recently (Just to make sure it wasn't the CPU) and both made the laptop go nuts. Works fine for a few days then the blue screen of death. Had to remove the chip just to get the computer to boot back up. Worked for a few mins then crashed again. Only way to turn on is to remove the chip again. Too buggy, returning to NewEgg first thing tomorrow and looking elsewhere. Anyone here have relatively good success with a particular 1GB Chip?!

Muki,

Update to the new bios and run a 512 stick in your internal slot and run a 1gb stick in the external slot. Then run memtest86 for 12 hours, if it passes, put your other 1gb stick in the external slot and then run memtest again. If both pass, then install them both and give it a try. I see no reason why it shouldn't work just fine. Others say it will work. I am going to buy some as soon as the holiday chaos is over with.

how many of the outpost ram's have malfunctioned?

are a lot of people experiencing similiar problems with the 1gb stick from fry's?? i'm wondering since i was planning on ordering a stick tomorrow for my 6810

thanks

Just got the corsair 1GB stick and put in to testing. Strange when booting in to windows i got a blue screan ,but the safe mode worked fine .Ive put the memtest it past 100% no errors , and prime95 for an hour and worked with 0 errors ,for now.We will see when ill leave it overnight. MAybe the blue screan is just that it needs a new windows or we'll see.Will try the new bios too later ,but first of all got to see how much it can hold on with no errors.

price drop alert! the ram is down to $149.99.

just ordered two sticks for $300

can someone just let me know if i should expect to troubleshoot my m6810 if i put in the 1gb from outpost.com?? or should it work just fine, i see mixed results on the forums, but i don't know if everyone is refering to the same ram or not

I'd say...it should work fine. ram is sometimes faulty. in my experience, ram usually doesn't go bad, it's either good or bad from the factory. if it's bad, rma it and get some more or order a different brand. I just bought two sticks - if either one or both is bad, I'll rma it, and if the rma sticks are bad, I'll return them and buy some Transcend. I really want some Crucial (love Crucial!), but their price is out of my budget right now.

I just bought two 1gb sticks of the Outpost ram with 2-day shipping for $325.62. For comparison, one 1gb stick of Crucial is $339.99. I really can't justify spending over $600 on ram when the laptop only has a 64mb video card. That may seem weird, but I'd only buy the Crucial if I had really spent a lot of money on a laptop, like a $3,200 Hypersonic CQ6 with 128mb video ram or one of those monsters with a 256mb video card. It's kind of a balance of budget vs. features. I set my budget at $2,000 for my laptop and all my upgrades, so this is working out perfectly. Now I'm just waiting for the 100gb 7200rpm 2.5" Seagate hard drives to come out Desktop-replacement, here I come!

I will update this thread as I get the ram in and play with it. I'm going to test each stick in the external memory slot as suggested, and if all goes well, I'll have Best Buy install the internal memory slot ram for $30 so that I don't void the Gateway warranty on my 7405gx.

By: Kaido
You will still void the Gateway warrenty. If you have a BB warrenty, then by all means go ahead, but if not gateway is the only way. Or throw the 1GB in and just wait for a year and throw the other one in.

And BTW, looking at these laptops, I don;t think they would ever know you took it apart unless of course you left the 1gb inside.

ah man, are you serious? I thought if you had a 'professional' at Best Buy do it, that it wouldn't void the manufacturer's warranty. You sure?

According to the corporate office there is "no other" authorized service centers for the retail gateway systems. There are however many for the online gateways. But they will not honor those either.

Plus I wouldn't want those knuckle heads (no offense to any of you who work at bb) to work on my laptop.

Kaido every warranty is voided if the upgrade is not done by the originating company in this case gateway. Now you might want to contact gateway and ask in this case because BB is an authorized dealer so they might have an exception(most do for authorized dealers). But i would not let best buy do it because the upgrade itself is pathetically simple and to be frank, i am always anxious when other people get into my stuff knowing that no one cares about my toys as much as i do. But if you do it yourself don't forget to replace your memory with the factory version when sending it back to gateway.

ah well. I've replaced laptop ram before, its no big deal, I was just hoping to keep the warranty. well, you saved me $30

Well, why don't ya give a call and find out for the benefit of the forum. They may just allow BB to do it.

When I was a BB tech, we didn't care if you did your own work, as long as it wasn't the reason you were bringing your computer in. Just don't screw up if you have the BB warranty, they often don't keep records of ALL the work they do anyways. Not that I am trying to compell you to void your Gateway warranty, but if you can't wait, and you hold on to the factory RAM, they'd never know the difference, and they likely wouldn't care as long as you do it right.

The simular problem here like with the outpost's 1GB stick.The corsair seems to be fine after 6 hours of memtesting with 0 errors.The problem is maybe the external slot ,but i don get it how it works fine with ste original samsung stick. Im so frustruated and confused ,probbably the outpost stick that i returned was just fine ,maybe its a compatibility issue. Does anyone has a M6811 working fully stable with any kind of 1GB stick. I'll flash the bios and see whats gonna happen. I would just love to see the corsair in the internal slot alone ,but dont wana void warranty at least while they fix my hinges. By the way is emachines offering upgrade to 1GB with theirs sticks and how would it cost . I really dont have luck with the upgrade by myself ,unless the bios upgrade saves the day.

Upgrade to the newest emachines 6811 bios and also try the NS gateway 7405gx one. Please let us know.

I did upgrade the to the new M6811 bios and nothing changed same problem again. I didn tried the gateway yet ,but i think it will be the same,but will try it anyway.I just dont have luck dude ,i just love the 1GB upgrade . How much ram do you have on the M6811 comp... What is your opinion about how can i upgade to atleast 1GB+ ram , is emachines offering any upgrades for ram with a reasonable price?

I have not got the memory yet. I will let ya know. And please do try the gateway ns bios. It is the newest.

Mine seems to work perfect. I have the factory NS bios in my gateway.