Acer Aspire 5673WLMI: Upgrading to 3GB Memory
Acer 5670 Series
Acer 5670 Series
Want to share my upgrade experience of Memory and HDD on a old Laptop Acer Aspire 5673 WLMI which I purchased in 2006.
At that time somewhere in Sep 2006, it's got quite good features like
Core Duo T2400 / 1.83 GHz - Centrino Duo
RAM 1 GB
HDD 120 GB
DVD RW (+R DL) / DVD-RAM
Mobility Radeon X1400 HyperMemory up to 512MB
Gigabit Ethernet - WLAN: 802.11a/b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
Win XP Home
15.4" Widescreen TFT 1280 x 800 (WXGA)
Camera 1.3 MEGA
Acer Bluetooth VOIP Phone
Core Duo T2400 / 1.83 GHz - Centrino Duo
RAM 1 GB
HDD 120 GB
DVD RW (+R DL) / DVD-RAM
Mobility Radeon X1400 HyperMemory up to 512MB
Gigabit Ethernet - WLAN: 802.11a/b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
Win XP Home
15.4" Widescreen TFT 1280 x 800 (WXGA)
Camera 1.3 MEGA
Acer Bluetooth VOIP Phone
Upgrades on Acer Aspire 5673WLMI (5670 Base Model)
1. Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional with SP2 -> at the time of LP purchase
All features are amazing and what I was looking was available, yea I purchased a Windows XP Professional upgrade for the Windows XP Home version which helped me a lot.
2. Memory Upgrade: 512 MB x 2 to 1GB x 2 - After 6 months
I started slowly upgrading it, which in the process I upgraded MEMORY from 1GB DDR2 to 2 GB DDR2 (Kingston - Life time Warranty). It as two slots filled with 512MB x 2, I moved to 1GB x 2, which worked fine.
3. SATA HDD Upgrade: 120GB5400rpm to 160GB 5400rpm
After few months, when I fall short of storage space (I was working on Oracle Applications 11i which occupies almost 100GB of space with VISION database). So I need more storage which I opted to for 160GB HDD 5400 rpm which costed me 198 $ SD.
Now its old almost 4 Years, everything the same, so I made my mind to upgrade Memory once again to Maximum.
4. 1GB x 2 to 2GB x 1GB -> 3GB of Memory
1. Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional with SP2 -> at the time of LP purchase
All features are amazing and what I was looking was available, yea I purchased a Windows XP Professional upgrade for the Windows XP Home version which helped me a lot.
2. Memory Upgrade: 512 MB x 2 to 1GB x 2 - After 6 months
I started slowly upgrading it, which in the process I upgraded MEMORY from 1GB DDR2 to 2 GB DDR2 (Kingston - Life time Warranty). It as two slots filled with 512MB x 2, I moved to 1GB x 2, which worked fine.
3. SATA HDD Upgrade: 120GB5400rpm to 160GB 5400rpm
After few months, when I fall short of storage space (I was working on Oracle Applications 11i which occupies almost 100GB of space with VISION database). So I need more storage which I opted to for 160GB HDD 5400 rpm which costed me 198 $ SD.
Now its old almost 4 Years, everything the same, so I made my mind to upgrade Memory once again to Maximum.
4. 1GB x 2 to 2GB x 1GB -> 3GB of Memory
Grabbed the opportunity today and purchased 2GB to replace 1GB Kingston. In fact I was told before that my laptop won’t support more than 2GB but it did.
I don’t find any issues and it worked. Well I don’t think so that it will work for 4GB Memory as Windows XP Professional as a limit as well as Acer 5670 is a 32-Bit architecture.
So, why waiting MEMORY is very cheap, grab Kingston from microcenter, buy.com or you can check for best deals at deals2buy.
I don’t find any issues and it worked. Well I don’t think so that it will work for 4GB Memory as Windows XP Professional as a limit as well as Acer 5670 is a 32-Bit architecture.
So, why waiting MEMORY is very cheap, grab Kingston from microcenter, buy.com or you can check for best deals at deals2buy.
Ravi Prakash
