Hello everybody.
I have a Amilo Si1848 with 1.66 GHz Core2Duo, and 1Gb RAM made of 2x512MB slots as usual.
I would like to upgrade it. First of all I have to figure out where the second slot is but probably under the keyboard which I'll open up soon to check (and then post since no one yet posted this info for the si1848).
I'm wondering if anybody knows something about the RAM amount limit for this and similar laptops.
In a official FSC forum http://forum.fujitsu-siemens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=28689 they say that upgrading to 4 GB (2 x 2Gb slots) can't boot up at least for another amilo!! Since the intel chipset supports it I suppose it's the BIOS that doesn't support it. If upgrading to 4Gb is not possible do you think that unbalancing the slots (i.e: 1x 512MB and 1x 2Gb) will drop down performances?
These things are bugging me pretty much... Freakin'hard to find infos, to find the second slot, and impossible to upgrade to 4GB!!! I know they say that XP doesn't support more than 3-3.5 Gb (fixed anyway by the SP2 as I well remember) but Jesus!!!
And you know what? The support told me that I shouldn't go higher than 2x512 Mb configuration because is the only one supported!
Bah...