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‎01-12-2011 12:38 AM

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I tried to upgrade the ram in my wife's old lap top  after installing a new hard drive, dating all drivers and updating bios.  Here patrician model doesn't accept the 2GB upgrade only accepts upgrading 1 256 chip to 1GB. So after all updates I installed a 1 GB DDR RAM PC 2700 2.5 V CL 2.5  200 pin 333MHz chip.  Bios recognized the upgrade and it worked for a couple of minutes and crashed. I started  it back up and went to safe same thing.  Started back up went in bios loaded factory defaults and tried again.  This time it crashed and I couldn't get any where so I put back in old chip and still couldn't do anything so I reloaded XP operating system and had to do all those **bleep** updates again.  Every thing working properly accept one on the Microsoft service pac updates creates an issue with the wifi connection.  I would like to fix that and I also want to upgrade the ram.  HP Pavilion zv5220us serial #CDN42300FP  Product #PF143UA#ABA. The new hard drive I installed was the same as the old one 60GB  420RPM.  The only other hardware that I added to it is a key board and a laptop wireless mouse.  The only added software is student office 2007  

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‎01-12-2011 01:56 AM

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HI,

 

The RAM Specs you provided is compatible with Notebook PC. However, the RAM Should be Non-ECC (Error Correction Code), and Non-Buffered Low Profile Card. 

 

If the RAM Module meets the requirement, install the BIOS update from the URL given below.

 

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp30001-30500/sp30397.exe

 

Check if the new RAM works fine upon restart. 

 

 

About SP3, you can directly download and install Sp3 from the URL given below.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/3/0/d30e32d8-418a-469d-b600-f32ce3edf42d/WindowsXP-KB936929...

 

Good Luck.

Kiran

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‎12-27-2012 03:09 PM

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The BIOS Flash worked beautiful, My HP zv5000us recognized the 1Gb ram. For anyone reading this comment, I was upgrading my HP laptop the primary ram card located under the keyboard was 256 Mb and would not complete the boot unless that was in it. When I flashed the BIOS using the first link provided it worked perfectly!
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