Laptop memory upgrade

[raybush]

I've got an Acer Aspire 5338 laptop and wanted to add some memory .I believe that there is an access cover underneath the laptop that is removed ,has anyone done this and if so does the laptop add the extra memory itself...........i hav'nt got a clue about doing this ,but thought i'd have a go rather than pay a fortune to have it done.
Thanks

[ChuckFickens]

"in general, after adding physical memory to laptop you need to re-create the Windows Swap file and re-create the Hibernation file."

What The Funicular.... Seriously methyl... will you stop it!!!


Just stick the extra RAM in, it's not hard, start the computer up, hit the key that save changes if needed... job done.

[ChuckFickens]

p.s.

I've done thousands of RAM upgrades!... I've never need to do the crap just suggested!...

The ram is here... it will be accessible by a simple panel on the base of the laptop, shut down, take the battery out and change/upgrade it...

http://www.crucial.com/uk/upgrade/Acer-memory/Aspire+Notebooks/Aspire+5338-upgrades.html

Then switch on, save the changes when prompted.

[VHG]

Important things to note about laptop memory:

First find out how much memory it has at the moment.

Then you need to find out what the maximum memory for your laptop is. Some laptops wont support more than 2Gb or 4Gb or whatever.

Then there are normally only one or two "slots" for your memory so you need to find out how many memory "slots" your laptop has.

So if it has say 1 slot, and you want to put 4Gb in, you need to buy a single 4Gb memory card.

If it has two slots you maybe be able to put 2 x 2Gb in and so on.

[beso]

Recreating swap file on memory change is easily the most ridiculous thing I have seen posted on technology at this site.

[hc4361]

I've done it, very easy and straightforward. Takes literally 5 minutes and no settings need to be fiddled with at all.

I always use this site to tell me what to buy - sometimes I buy from them, other times I don't.

http://www.crucial.com/uk/systemscanner/

You can watch videos on YouTube of it being done.

[raybush]

Thank you all very much for the info,if and when i decide to upgrade this info will be of value to me.
Thanks

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I've fitted Ram memory into both Toshibas and Acers.
I pulled the clip back, wiggled the card out, slotted the new card in and restarted.
No-one died.

[beso]

I fail to see how the brand of the machine is really going to make much difference. Windows manages the swap file.

Although it is possible to set a fixed size for the swap file it is rarely done. Moreover simply recreating it would not change that size because the size needs to be specified.

I would suggest that any problems following a memory change would be far more likely to be related to not properly seating the RAM modules.

[hc4361]

I've added extra RAM to Acer laptops too, all without problem.

[ChuckFickens]

"Maybe you have been lucky? On many of them it does indeed work,"

Wow, I must have been lucky hundred, of not thousands of times during my 20+ year career in IT, as must have all the other people who work in IT with me, who also thought this was laughable.

I must remember that I need to recreate the page file every single time one of my virtual hyper-v servers with dynamic RAM changes the amount of RAM on the fly.