latest bios version for Presario C555ea - ram upgrade

[Benassy]

Hello,  I have an old Presarrio C555ea that I have not used it for a long time. Now I want to give it a ne life therefore I want to upgrade the RAM but unfortunatelly it can only support 2 gb. IS there a Bios update that acceps 4 gb. Currentlly I have only one dimm of 2gb and If I add another one I get a black screen.

Thank you!

Adrian

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

I don't believe that there is.

Here is the latest BIOS update I could find...F.24

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp35501-36000/sp35954.html

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp35501-36000/sp35954.exe

[Benassy]

Thanks for your quick response...

It is really strage, because I have read some older forum posts that are stateing some C500 laptops running 4gb ram, but not listing the solution.

I am now on F.15 do you suggest I shoult update to F.24A ? 

BTW i have added the intel Core 2 Duo T5500 i hope F24A still supports this CPU, otherwise I will need to revert back to F.15.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

BIOS updates are cumulative, so if the T5500 works on F.15, it will work on F.24.

None of the BIOS updates indicate added support for 4 GB of memory.

I would run the free crucial memory scan tool and see what it reports.

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/systemscanner

[Benassy]

So I've made some reasearch and it seems like the limitation to only 2GB of ram is hardware related. My mainboard has the intel 943 chip which has the limit of only 2 GB. If I would hav had the Intel 945 than I would be in luck.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You are correct.