[antdavison]

who is going to be the guinea pig

... superspeed's ramdisk plus v 9.0.3.0 should allow you to turn unaddressable ram into a ramdisk

G.SKILL DDR2 PC2-5300 CL5 4GB

F2-5300CL5S-4GBSQ

http://newgskill.web-bi.net/bbs/view...=g_forpc&no=27
us$ 160 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231202
eur 112 http://www.memoryc.com/computermemor...iessingle.html

[GreyWolf]

Hey everyone,
Decided to be the guinea pig for the 4GB ram test. I recently purchased the HP 2133 and decided to upgrade it (4GB ram, 500 GB hard drive, and install ubuntu w/ virtual windows xp, and freeBSD). I formatted the 120 GB hard drive and installed ubuntu to mess around until my hard drive arrived. I purchased the Kingston KVR667D2S5 chip that is a DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) SO-DIMM chip as specified on the page: http://www.hp2133guide.com/how-to-up...133-mini-note/ even though the page did not mention anything about more than a 2GB stick.

Process:

Had no problem opening the computer and switching the sticks. The Kingston stick fit just fine and the 2GB ram appeared to by a two-sided SO-DIMM as well so everything seemed compatible.

Closed up everything fine.

Booted up the HP 2133 and received a blank screen, blue led on power switch, no led on wifi switch, and the computer seemed to be receiving low power (the main fan did not come on for a while).

I kept rebooting (sometimes waiting ten minutes) and even took out the battery and cleared the static in the computer by holding the power switch. However every time the monitor was blank and the computer power seemed slow

/Process

The Kingston ram chip is a 1.8V ram chip and I did not know if that had anything to do with it. I am only upgrading from the 2GB ram but I wanted to see what I could get. I even put the 2GB ram chip back in and received the same boot conditions until I cleared the static and then just waited a while (during the unbootable period the computer did not show an AC power light next to the power chord.

eplejuz wrote:
x86 will not reg the 4GB

eplejuz appeared to be speaking about the processor or motherboard architecture not the operating system but there were some arguments against this statement on this forum and others. However it appears that it is a severe hardware conflict. This is a guess because it appeared that the ram chip affected the motherboard boot conditions (appearing to fry the AC power port).

Sorry for the extremely detailed and long post but I still have the 4GB chip (will send back soon) unless anyone has any ideas that they can think of or any explanations as to what they think happened.

Thanks,
Greywolf

[GreyWolf]

Hey everyone,
Decided to be the guinea pig for the 4GB ram test. I recently purchased the HP 2133 and decided to upgrade it (4GB ram, 500 GB hard drive, and install ubuntu w/ virtual windows xp, and freeBSD). I formatted the 120 GB hard drive and installed ubuntu to mess around until my hard drive arrived. I purchased the Kingston KVR667D2S5 chip that is a DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) SO-DIMM chip as specified on the page: http://www.hp2133guide.com/how-to-up...133-mini-note/ even though the page did not mention anything about more than a 2GB stick.

Process:

Had no problem opening the computer and switching the sticks. The Kingston stick fit just fine and the 2GB ram appeared to by a two-sided SO-DIMM as well so everything seemed compatible.

Closed up everything fine.

Booted up the HP 2133 and received a blank screen, blue led on power switch, no led on wifi switch, and the computer seemed to be receiving low power (the main fan did not come on for a while).

I kept rebooting (sometimes waiting ten minutes) and even took out the battery and cleared the static in the computer by holding the power switch. However every time the monitor was blank and the computer power seemed slow

/Process

The Kingston ram chip is a 1.8V ram chip and I did not know if that had anything to do with it. I am only upgrading from the 2GB ram but I wanted to see what I could get. I even put the 2GB ram chip back in and received the same boot conditions until I cleared the static and then just waited a while (during the unbootable period the computer did not show an AC power light next to the power chord.

eplejuz wrote:
x86 will not reg the 4GB

eplejuz appeared to be speaking about the processor or motherboard architecture not the operating system but there were some arguments against this statement on this forum and others. However it appears that it is a severe hardware conflict. This is a guess because it appeared that the ram chip affected the motherboard boot conditions (appearing to fry the AC power port).

Sorry for the extremely detailed and long post but I still have the 4GB chip (will send back soon) unless anyone has any ideas that they can think of or any explanations as to what they think happened.

Thanks,
Greywolf

[luvit]

greywolf, are you using the latest bios? have you tried earlier BIOS revs?
did i read your post right? you can't boot with your original 2GB stick cause your AC power port burned up?

[luvit]

greywolf, are you using the latest bios? have you tried earlier BIOS revs?
did i read your post right? you can't boot with your original 2GB stick cause your AC power port burned up?

[GreyWolf]

luvit,
I have not upgraded the bios. I figured since I just bought it brand new it might have the newest bios (a faulty assumption). I should check on that, thank you.

However the computer is again working but it acted like the ac power port was burned even with the 2GB stick. However I cleared the static (removed the battery and held the power switch) several times and followed the instructions off of the hp web site for technical problems (even though it wasn't much help) after I had tried it for an hour I gave up and was going to send it in to hp but decided to let it sit for a while then it booted up just fine. I figured it might have been a power conflict with the ram or some sort of weird architecture conflict. I will check the bios version.

[GreyWolf]

luvit,
I have not upgraded the bios. I figured since I just bought it brand new it might have the newest bios (a faulty assumption). I should check on that, thank you.

However the computer is again working but it acted like the ac power port was burned even with the 2GB stick. However I cleared the static (removed the battery and held the power switch) several times and followed the instructions off of the hp web site for technical problems (even though it wasn't much help) after I had tried it for an hour I gave up and was going to send it in to hp but decided to let it sit for a while then it booted up just fine. I figured it might have been a power conflict with the ram or some sort of weird architecture conflict. I will check the bios version.

[ZaForD]

Hi GreyWolf,

Thats pretty normal for laptops.
I've had IBM's Sony's and Dell's all do the same now trying to add too much RAM or a better MiniPCI card.

[ZaForD]

Hi GreyWolf,

Thats pretty normal for laptops.
I've had IBM's Sony's and Dell's all do the same now trying to add too much RAM or a better MiniPCI card.

[luvit]

greywolf is mia... has anyone upgraded to 4gb? lulz.