BIOS UPDATE TO INCREASE RAM CAPABILITY

[XP-C768TUFAN]

Hello Folks,

Firstly, may you all have a very prosperous and Happy New Year!

My issue is, an older person and used to the OS, I'm trying to keep Windows XP SP3 for as long as possible!

I've found an update to an unofficial SP4 which seems to work pretty well.

However, I have 2 very old C700 series laptops, which look identical, however their Compliance Labels are different.

This is the one I'm currently using, which is a Presario C719TU and the other is a Presario C768TU.

Both keep freezing by running very slow especially while searching the internet with more than 2 tabs open, even with disabling unnecessary programs etc.  I've even found suitable browsers, anti-virus etc that only use little resources!

My problem is I can only fit 2 gb (2x 1gb (PC-2 5300 DDR Ram sticks), however I only have 1x1gb and 1x 500mb.

Is there an update or Bios upgrade which will enable increasing my ram to say 2 x 2Gb PC-2 5300 DDR Ram or better?

I'm sorry for all the info, but thought it may be useful and save some time etc?

Kind Regards and Many Thanks.....  Pete

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, Pete:

Happy New Year to you too!

HP retired support for that model series since it is more than 10 years old, so there is no BIOS update history available to show what fixes or enhancements were included in previous BIOS updates.

Here is the link to the service manual for the model series...chapter 1 indicates the max memory is 2 x 1 GB.

c01301275.pdf (hp.com)

Looking at the chipset specs for the motherboard the C768TU has, it only supports a max of 2 GB of memory according to Intel.

Intel® 82GL960 Graphics and Memory Controller Product Specifications

The motherboard for the C719TU does not list what chipset it has, but it is definitely no better than what the C768TU has.

I have provided the info and exe file links to the last BIOS update HP released for the C700 model series with the Intel processors below...

The update was designed to be run using Windows Vista, so I have no idea what would happen if you tried to run it in XP.

F.35 - April 9, 2010

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp48001-48500/sp48079.html

Exe:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp48001-48500/sp48079.exe

I doubt that updating the BIOS' on either model would allow for the use of 2 x 2 GB of memory.