Acer Aspire 1810ZT 8 GB memory

nyholku

Hi,

 

on this forum some four years ago:

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/528519-acer-timeline-1410-1810tz-question.html

 

the possibility of having 8GB on 1810ZT was discussed. The conversation is not 100%

clear so I'm looking for confirmation here before I buy the memory and test.

 

I've checked the schematics and indeed the north bridge seems to support 2 x 4GB

so I think it is very possible that when when the original spec for 1810ZT was written

no 4 GB memory modules were available hence the spec 4 GB max when in reality

you could have 8 GB installed. That would be awesome.

 

Has anyone any knowledge of this?

 

br Kusti

 

laurent_14

Hello nyholku,

 

I have checked with 3 memory finders:

- Crucial Advisor : 4Gb - 800MHz maxi

- Kingston : 4 Gb

- Corsair : 4 Gb

 

In the chipset datasheet, I saw that but no memory finder give DDR3:

"The mobile Intel® GS45 Express chipset features hardware based decoding for Blu-ray content, dual-channel DDR3 and DDR2 memory support, up to 1066 MHz system bus, PCI Express* x16 graphics ports and PCI Express x1 I/O ports, Serial ATA, and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity."

 

In the manual, you saw that about the north bridge:

" . Processor hosts bus supports 667/800/1066MHz FSB support.

  . Supports Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667/800MHz

  . Integrated SDRAM controller up to 8GB (2 SODIMM support)

  . DMI x2 and DMI x4 for connection between GMCH and ICH9M"

 

In conclusion, I keep only the manufacturers' results because they tested theirs memory sticks: 4 Gb - 800MHz maxi.

 

 

 

nyholku

Hi,

 

thanks, I've done that myself but looking at for example the crucial report it says:

"Scan ID xxxxxx, System spec as shipped by the manufacturer" which to me suggest

that the scanner does no more than to look up the manufacturer spec from a

database, and I'm suspecting (based on the thread I refered to and on my

own reasoning) that the manufacturer spec in the database is not totally accurate.

 

So I don't trust the scanner sofwares, I'm looking for someone who either has some technical

info or has tried this and knows that it works or not.

 

The 1810TZ is what 4-5 years old and the design and specs even older so I don't

think we had 4 GB modules back then and thus it can be Acer just wrote 4 GB

in the spec and there is no reason to update old stuff...

 

br Kusti