Acer Aspire One
July 21, 2008
I finally had a chance to customize my new Acer Aspire One. It came bundled with only 512 MB of RAM, so I bought another 1 GB (max for this mainboard) to install. I was cautioned by a member of the sales staff at Canada Computers that the installation was not an easy one, and that I should scour YouTube to find a video demonstration.
The staff member was not kidding! This RAM installation was quite a learning experience. I’ve been assembling computers for years, but had never cracked open a laptop before, never mind a sub-notebook. It was very counter intuitive. Screws were hidden under the rubber feet of the laptop. I had to rip them out with a screwdriver, revealing double sided tape. The keyboard then had to be pried out, followed by removing multiple layers to finally reveal the expansion slot which was UNDER the mainboard itself. Tiny delicate clips were everywhere. I must say, after putting the Aspire One back together, I was just glad that it booted up! Luckily everything worked and the extra RAM showed up in the bios. I was unable to find a YouTube video with instructions, but found this post to be a good overview, and this step by step guide was an amazing help.
I also found the following post quite useful for some tips on how to get into the Linpus back end.
