aspire 5742G upgrade Ram to 8GB problem!!

Rikiboy
Rikiboy Member Posts: 1 New User

Hi need some help please!!

Aspire 5742g triyng to upgrade RAM from 4GB to 8GB

Bought from Crucial 2x 4gb ddr3l  1600 SODIMM 1.35V CL11

 

I can manage to make the computer accept the RAM but it will allocate most of it to hardware leaving me only with 2550 of Physical memory available, and when I start task manager on performance Im almost to 100% of usage,

 

Windows 7 home premium 64

I5-460M processor 2.53ghz

Nvidea geforce 420m

the bios version is 1.30

 

Can I have some help please?

Don't know what to do!!

Answers

  • IVAN_PC
    IVAN_PC ACE Posts: 7,488 Pathfinder

    HI. 

    rikiboy

     

    The system reserves memory specifies systemwide 3.5 GB even in some cases more, for the hardware you can generally try to follow the steps in the document.

     

    http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/137552-windows-7-x64-not-recognizing-ram.html

     

    Run software to see if it has errors modules:Memtest86

     

    Regards.


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