Acer Aspire E5-574-57V5 How to Add RAM memory?

Richardhu828 · 2016-11-29T09:28:53+00:00

Hi, I'm trying to figure out what type of memory I should get a 2nd RAM upgrade for my Acer Aspire E5-574G-57V5 Note-Book, I’ve found a sticker label on laptop stated c/w 4GB DDR3L memory. I’ve downloaded CPU-Z and it shown memory Slot #1 4096 Mbytes , Module, Hyundai Electronics 4096 MB (DDR3-1600) - P/N:…

brummyfan2

Hi Richard,

You could try check for any corrupted files in your OS by using sfc /scannow command, you need to run it at least 3times.

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2895-sfc-command-run-windows-10-a.html

Richardhu828

Hi Brummyfan2,

Kindly could you advice what is the typical memory % utilization on Windows 10 system with just a minimum sets of start-up process and background tasks? For example, say below 50% or 30% while Windows 10 is running minimum tasks? As I’ve google search and found some suggestions to adjust the system setting on Virtual memory file pageing size on HDD to follow the physical RAM size ( 4x 1024M = 4GB) for minimum size and 2 X for maximum, however the recommended is 1899MB and wonder will this setting relative affect the disk % utilization ? Btw, any suggestion of memory leaks monitoring tools can be downloaded?

Thank you and best regards.

brummyfan2

Hi,

Mine says 44% and that's OK, if your's is very high use the fix from the video, regarding your paging file, I always leave it to the system to manage it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_yv-sZxub4

Richardhu828

Hi Brummyfan2,

I would like to update the status of my Acer Aspire E5-574G-57V5 Note-Book upgrade, I had purchased the following items:

One Crucial 4GB DDR3 P/N: CT51264BF160BJ
Crucial SSD MX300 750GB (Limited Edition)
An external HDD casing for the existing Seagate 1TB (ST1000LM024) HDD with a USB connector.

After searched Google and YouTube video for the HDD to SSD OS migration procedure, I’ve decided to use the Acer e-recovery management to restore Windows 10 factory setting from the backup USB procedure, for a reason to eliminate the existing Windows 10 files corruption being clone to new Crucial SSD, as try to achieve a clean factory OS to reset the notebook.

The restore and re-installation of Windows 10 was done successfully, the Windows 10 system was able to boot up from SSD and the task manager shown Disk utilization dropped significantly to about 3% and memory utilization 32% (*now 8GB).

However, I’ve discovered an issue that the Control Panel > Device Manager > Disk Drives name was still shown as previous Seagate 1TB (ST1000LM024) and right click the properties shown the driver is working property > Microsoft Driver version 10.0.10586.0 (21/6/2006).

Again I tried uninstalled the driver and did a scan for hardware change with the same result. Then I’ve tried boot from inside Windows 10 to check the UEFI Firmware BIOS settings and it shown the Crucial MX300 750GB was recognised as SSD. In addition, I’ve also tried Power Off and Power up again, pressed F2 key entered in to BIOS menu and it recognised as Crucial Model CT750MX300SSD1.

Further confirmation I’ve downloaded & installed Crucial Storage Executive, V 3.34 as a client and also verified the MX300 was presented, but at the same website forum community I’ve also reads a few Crucial Community posting on MX300 freeze on Windows 10, it seems to have other difference issue.

At the moment, the Crucial MX300 SSD is accessible. However I’m not sure will it running it as optimal speeds performance or will it cause any mismatch issue?

I’ve also search MS website and posted a question in MS community forum to seek for some expert advice for a possible solution for this disk driver name mismatch in Device Manager.

I would appreciate anyone in this Acer Community can also help for a good solution.

Thank you and Best Regards.

brummyfan2

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your update, you don't need to worry about mismatch of your hardware info, it will alter by itself after few reboots, for the time being you forget about it and carry on enjoying your laptop( have a look at my snip, I actually have a i5-7200).

I would suggest you not to rely on Crucial Storage Executive, it's a useless piece of software IMHO, to safeguard yourself from any failure of SSD, I would suggest you to use Macrium Reflect Free and create a recovery disk, back up regularly working copies of your SSD( I prefer full image), I have provided some links for tutorials( backup and recovery disk)

http://www.macrium.com/help/v5/How_to/Rescue/Create_a_Standard_Windows_PE_Rescue_Environment.htm

http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50074.aspx

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Richardhu828

Hi Brummyfan2,

Many thanks for your information.

The Macrium Reflect Free is really a great backup software and I’ve created a Rescue CD with Windows PE and yet to do a full image backup as my notebook current SSD disk partition C: is 522GB, I still wonder how to find an external USB disk space to house this huge image and might again needs run to a HW shop purchase a new high capacity HDD, also found out that Macrium Reflect has an option to high compression backup but it’s not recommendation, meanwhile I still holding on to the existing HDD just in case for any unexpected issue on new SSD upgrade.

Macrium Reflect website mentioned the latest free version 6.3 support the differential Images for faster backups and reduced storage space and I am yet to explore how it works (* Still searching for a tutorial) ?

Thank again for your great suggestion and Best Regards.

brummyfan2

Hi,

Yes, it's a good idea to keep the original disk, you can get normal spinner disk online very cheap nowadays and a connector/converter(link below), BTW, thanks for the kudos Smiley Happy

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B013QFRS2S/ref=sr_1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1481698020&sr=1-2&keywords=HDD

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Cables/SATA-Converter-Adapter-Cable-Drive/B01JO2NV3W/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1481698201&sr=1-1&keywords=external+hard+drive+connectors

Richardhu828

Hi Brummyfan2,

Good day. I would like to update that my Acer Aspire E5-574G-57V5 note-book of Crucial MX300 SSD incorrectly name in Device Manager has been resolved, I’ve found a forum post in Superuser.com provided a quick good solution and Intel website link on Intel(R) Chipset Device Software details information:

The solution is run msconfig command to change setting to Safe mode boot and delete the wrong name disk driver, then a reboot again to update the device driver and the Crucial CT750MX300SSD1 name was updated, finally done a re-boot of Windows 10 back to normal operation and the issue resolved.

The Fernando's Win-RAID Forum (Storage Drivers) preliminary notes regarding Intel's Chipset drivers is also great help for my understanding on Device Manager real driver (= .SYS file) is just a textmode (= .INF) files, the SSD disk driver is the same Microsoft version 10.0.14393.0 (21/6/2006).

Thank you and Best Regards. Smiley Very Happy