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For all you people thinking of upgrading your eeePC RAM to 2GB.

First I called Asus and asked them if it was ok that we do the RAM upgrade thing by bringing our eeePC and our own RAM modules over and doing the upgrade. And the guy working there, a Mr Wong, said yes it was fine.

My colleague just took a whole bunch of our eeePCs along with 4 sticks of Kingston 2GB RAM over to the Asus Services center at Wisma SPS.

Upon seeing the RAM Mr Wong then told us that he could NOT install the RAM for us, cause Asus doesn't warranty anything bigger than 1GB. Specifically he was saying that and I quote "What if the RAM burns the motherboard?" I started arguing with him telling him its just a SODIMM module, not a power supply. But he was insistant that he can NOT put a 2GB module into the eeePC.

Then he said he had to check with his Manager... who is in Taiwan right now... After refering to his colleague to make some phone calls, they have now agreed to install the ram, but there'll only be LOCAL warranty on the units. I have no idea what that means, but they are sticking back the warranty labels though so there shouldn't be a problem.

If the guy can say tha a sodimm can burn the motherboard, whoknows what he'll say when he sees the vista on my system.

But the thing IS running normal notebook RAM right now, it's using cheap easily available parts how else you think they can make it so cheap?

And it already gets toasty as it is, it doesn't exactly run cool.

Ok, my eeePC runs WinXP very well right now.

The main reason I did the upgrade to 2GB is not for performance issues, but rather because with more RAM it means that I can turn off the paging file and reduce wear on the SSD.

I tried to move the paging file and the temporary internet files to the SD card but... the pity is that my 2GB SanDIsk Extreme card just isn't fast enough to handle it. The system slows to a crawl when the temporary internet files are stored there.

Wonder if a class 6 SDHC card makes a difference or not?

hmm.. 512MB for a RAM drive just for temp files... interesting idea...

the base install of winxp professional (no tweaks or nlite at all) took up 2GB.

Using Kingston 2GB DDR667 ram

ok, created a 100MB RAM disk for use as temporary internet file storage.

Works like a charm... fast.. cool! Thanks for the suggestion Irontech!

before you start xp installation you need to set the os installation switch to start in the bios, after you finish and it boots into windows for the first time, do a restart and set os installation switch to end in the bios.

Also make sure the webcam is enabled in the BIOS.

I have reinstalled vista and xp multiple times camera works everytime.

iRonTech : don't put the page file on a RAM disk, it's redundant that way since the page file is only used when there's not enough RAM and the only thing you're doing with that is taking RAM away from the system

so far, with 2GB i haven't ran out of ram yet.

My SD card slot was behaving weirdly yesterday night, it wasn't detecting the card properly and thus boot ups and stuff was very slow.

When it's working properly, boot up is fast.. i haven't timed it before but I know it's definetly not a minute.

And yes, I have all the updates installed too.

Ok, something weird happened to my eeePC yesterday, the SD card reader didn't want to detect or read any cards. In fact, if I left a card in there during bootup, the system basically hangs cause the BIOS is trying to see if there's anything bootable in the card slot.

Windows would ask if I wanted to format the card, which I politely declined, after reinsterting the card a few times it finally came back to life again... but it's a weird issue to begin with.

I installed the full WinXP SP2, then just got rid of the page file since I had upgrade to 2GB of RAM.

RMVB is no problem
Moderate bit rate AVI no problem.
H264, ie MKV... nope.. no chance...

Hibernate is different from clean boot, if you had more ram restoring from hibernate takes longer cause it's basically loading ram from disks