I’m not sure if this applies to other models of the ASUS EeePC, or indeed to other manufacturer’s products, but I had a niggly problem upgrading from 1Gb to 2Gb memory (the maximum the little beast can take).
I bought my upgrade from Offtek who I’ve used a few times before and found to be very good. The SODIMM turned up, I swapped it out for the 1Gb one included in the machine and rebooted.
And found I had 0.99Gb of memory. The exact same as I had in place before the “upgrade”. I rechecked, re-seated, ran the Ubuntu memory checker and all told me the same thing.
So the SODIMM went back to Offtek who sent me a replacement by return of post.
And the same thing happened.
The solution, it turns out, is simple. Finding it is not. I couldn’t find jack **** on the ASUS website. For a start, there is no “EeePC” model listed in the search filter in the FAQ. Skipping past that and just searching for anything with “RAM” or “memory” in the text returned – surprisingly – nothing. At all. For any model.
I then tried Google and found a solution, funnily enough on some ASUS forum that wasn’t linked from the UK support site. It is this:
Upon booting, hammer the F2 key so that you get into the BIOS setup. Don’t touch anything, just hit F10 to quit and save changes (answer “yes” to the prompt).
Sorted.
An annoying little problem with a silly solution.
