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I have been messing around with my Toshiba laptop for a while and had problems installing 4 gigs of ram into it. My a205-s5847 would not take a 2 gig stick of ram in the main top slot if the lower slot had a stick in it.. for example, My laptop came with two 1 gig slots filling the memory docks. If i upgraded to 3 gigs of ram, I had to have the 2 gig slot in the lower dock. If I wanted 4 gigs, i was SOL. If i wanted 2 gigs only, I could boot with either 2-1gig sticks, or 1-2gig stick in the top slot. Toshiba apparently installed hardware that matched windows vista-32 capabilities. Regardless, the point of this post is for one, to see if anyone has found a fix to this problem, and 2: One person I talked to spoke of resetting your bios, because it was holding the ram timing of my old 1 gig sticks and reseting the bios data would refresh it to the new ram timings.. After days of searching, i finally crossed my fingers and decide to try it.
(this resetting procedure works to remove forgotten passwords in bios, i tested it)
to reset the a205-s8545 laptop bios, you must remove your memory sticks and find a J1 jumper that is zig zagg and gold. it is directly under your memory and ****ed to the left side of the memory docks. I did this with my battery in, and held a screwdriver to short it for 25 seconds human count. human count is, not actual seconds, i just counted to 25 in a slow manner. I tried to replicate this with 15 human count seconds and it did not work. I also tried with-out the battery in, and it did not work. When i refer to the battery, i mean the laptop battery, not the cmos battery. I never tried with the power cable in. just in case I was doing something stupid, at least it would not hurt me. lol
Testing this theory was dumb, and i do not wish people to replicate shorting out random shiny objects in any piece of electronics. it can be deadly and/or cost you money. I will post a picture tomorrow of the actual jumper, and of my model number so there are no confusions. I just want a documentation for people with my laptop so they don't have to go through my trial and error. This resets time/date/settings/passwords on toshiba a205-s5847
if anyone has any information on the Toshiba 3gig memory limit, please let me know
tdgeddes at gmail.com
(this resetting procedure works to remove forgotten passwords in bios, i tested it)
to reset the a205-s8545 laptop bios, you must remove your memory sticks and find a J1 jumper that is zig zagg and gold. it is directly under your memory and ****ed to the left side of the memory docks. I did this with my battery in, and held a screwdriver to short it for 25 seconds human count. human count is, not actual seconds, i just counted to 25 in a slow manner. I tried to replicate this with 15 human count seconds and it did not work. I also tried with-out the battery in, and it did not work. When i refer to the battery, i mean the laptop battery, not the cmos battery. I never tried with the power cable in. just in case I was doing something stupid, at least it would not hurt me. lol
Testing this theory was dumb, and i do not wish people to replicate shorting out random shiny objects in any piece of electronics. it can be deadly and/or cost you money. I will post a picture tomorrow of the actual jumper, and of my model number so there are no confusions. I just want a documentation for people with my laptop so they don't have to go through my trial and error. This resets time/date/settings/passwords on toshiba a205-s5847
if anyone has any information on the Toshiba 3gig memory limit, please let me know
tdgeddes at gmail.com
