Asus X541S laptop Is there a way to upgrade the 2 gig onboard Ram or can I Run Ubuntu in stead of windows 10 I cant get into this machine`s Bios

Bill DeLisi

• 117 Answers
• Posted on Aug 22, 2006

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Hello akolsen, The first thing you want to do it to reset the CMOS. 1. Turn off the computer and unplug the power cord. 2. Remove the onboard battery. 3. Move the jumper cap from pins 1-2 (default) to 2-3. Keep the cap on pins 2-3 for about 5 to 10 seconds, and then move the cap back to pins 1-2. 4. Re-install the battery. 5. Plug the power cord in and turn on the computer. 6. Hold the DELETE key down during the boot process to bring you into the BIOS setup. If you are not getting any video after this, try unplugging your hard drive. If you still are not getting any video, it could be your RAM. If you have more than 1 stick, pull the ram out and try them one at a time. If you only have 1 stick, try a different slot. And, very important, if you are using two sticks, make sure you are in the yellow slots or the black slots, NOT side by side. Please let us know how this works for you, and if you have any additional concerns. Best regards, nightdiver

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I've got the same little EEE as yours. I just did a bit upgrade my little one with a ram DDRII 2GB. That's the most it can go. I asked about the internal HDD, they said that EEE-PC has a built-in one. So, it ended up that I put an internal HDD into a box. That will solve it all. And...OH! I changed WINXP to Linux as well. That saved some space...I believe.

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Did you add the two sticks with the 512 or remove the 512 and add the two 1gb sticks? Try booting the machine with ONLY the 1gb sticks in.

Your machine supports 1gb modules but they can't be higher than 533MHz. Check that the memory you purchased was either PC3200 (400MHz) or PC4200 (533MHz) and is 1.8v. If you post the part number off of one of the modules I can look it up for you.

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i am so sorry but you can't.
2400 MHZ is a Pentuim 4 or later.

and the socket is 748, now u got 478 so there is a huge difference!!

but you try an intel with 1000MHz;

SOURCE: change ram from 512 to 1 gig bios cannot read added ram

The original 2 sticks of 256 Mb of RAM gives you a total of 512
Mb of RAM. Two 512 Mb of RAM gives you a total of 1 Gb of RAM.
With two sticks of 512 Mb of RAM are you sure you got a total of 192 Mb of RAM, this is a lot less than the original RAM total of 512 Mb?
Should this be 1920 Mb of RAM?
If this 192 Mb is correct then the RAM modules are either not compatible with the laptop or if the RAM modules are not from the same manufacturer then they may not work together.

Most laptops have video cards that use part of the main RAM for video RAM, that is why the available RAM is less than the installed RAM modules. The amount of RAM the video card grabs depends upon the type of video card and in some cases the amount of video RAM can controlled in the BIOS setting.