This is pretty much a copy of the post I made on the Acer Community forums, also posting here to hopefully get help faster.
I've been trying to install a 2GB RAM stick in my Aspire One D255, however once it's in there it won't boot to BIOS, just a blank screen and fans stop spinning. I've looked around and I think a good step is to update the BIOS to v3.16 (after putting the factory 1GB RAM back in, of course).
I've already wiped Windows off my C drive trying (and failing) to install Kubuntu. So I installed FreeDOS on there and (on another PC) copied the BIOS update files onto a USB drive and then moved them to the root of C on my laptop. The file structure is as follows:
C:\>dir
Volume in drive C is FREEDOS2016
Volume Serial Number is 113E-16F7
Directory of C:\
FDOS <DIR> 04-27-2019 3:20p
AUTOEXEC BAT 1,319 04-27-2019 3:21p
COMMAND COM 66,945 08-28-2006 10:38p
FDCONFIG SYS 762 04-27-2019 3:21p
FLASH EXE 16,714 04-27-2019 3:42p
FLASHIT EXE 489,486 01-10-2009 10:02p
KERNEL SYS 46,685 05-11-2016 9:42p
PAV70D2 FD 2,097,152 04-22-2011 10:48p
PAV70D3 FD 2,097,152 04-22-2011 10:00p
8 file(s) 4,816,215 bytes
1 dir(s) 2,136,309,760 bytes free
Flash.exe
, FlashIt.exe
& the 2 .fd
files are the update files. The rest is part of FreeDOS.
But when I run Flash.exe
, I get this error:
C:\>FLASH.EXE
C:\>Flashit PAV70D3.fd /all
DOS/4GW Professional fatal error (1307): not enough memory
one file removed.
mem
returns this:
C:\>mem
Memory Type Total Used Free
---------------- -------- -------- --------
Conventional 639K 18K 621K
Upper 68K 19K 49K
Reserved 317K 317K 0K
Extended (XMS) 1,036,776K 1,316K 1,035,460K
---------------- -------- -------- --------
Total memory 1,037,800K 1,670K 1,036,130K
Total under 1 MB 707K 37K 670K
Total Expanded (EMS) 8,640K (8,847,360 bytes)
Free Expanded (EMS) 8,192K (8,388,608 bytes)
Largest executable program size 621K (635,904 bytes)
Largest free upper memory block 48K ( 49,520 bytes)
FreeDOS is resident in the high memory area.
Before you say "don't bother, just buy a new laptop", I recently received this D255 as a gift.
Please help, as I have 30 days to return the 2GB RAM stick if the problem is with the stick itself (however I highly doubt that, since I bought another 2GB RAM ram stick before this one but that didn't work either).