+Giovanni Masi This guy is an idiot. This is not how you add RAM to any laptop known on the face of the planet. There is a back panel that is even shown in his video (2:59) when he tips everything over. Its one screw and pop the panel out. Even if there was no panel, common sense should tell you that if you have to remove EVERYTHING from the front only to tip it over to get to the back, that you should instead remove the back and not the front.
Hi sseiyah. Thanks for this video and the other two. This worked for my ASUS F501A. I have just upgraded the wifi card to an Intel AC7260 and it works perfectly. Not only do I now have faster wifi but I also have internal bluetooth now. I downloaded and installed the Intel Pro Set drivers before the upgrade and the new wifi card was recognised as soon as I turned the computer back on after the upgrade. Your videos were a great help.
Just did this with my Asus X501a Runs much better with 8GB ram in it. But might wanna be carful when taking the motherboard apart. my Laptop left hinge screw holes broke off so I had to order a new bottom base. but other then that everything works great. Great video!
I ended up with the screws by the hinges that are longer not being able to screw back in because the 2 plastic pieces with the nuts in them broke off. This computer sure is made with dinky cheap plastic.
Just in case anyone is considering this upgrade for the X501U sister model of this laptop, despite both machines being very similar the memory is non-upgradable in this model. I have gone through the above procedure and found that the memory chips are soldered therefore there is no DIMM slot on the board anywhere. Bummer!
Just so you guys know, The laptop had 8gb of ram, not 4gb. 1 4gb stick is located in the back which is way easier to get to but the other one is located deeper within the comuter as he demonstrated. Yes Asus is kinda messed up for seperating the locations of the 2 spots but oh well
It would appear if you have 2GB, you have a different version of this laptop. Make sure the company has a good return policy and match up the speed to the chip thats currently installed. Laptops dont have video cards, so no way to upgrade them.
it did sort of, the i5 did work but after 30 mins it shutdown because of the hm70 chipset. I instead bought a pentium 2030m, the best this chipset would be compatible with
I just got the X502, similar dissasembly, but the RAM is soldered to the board. No upgrading it. The drive HAS to be 7mm and the wireless can be upgraded.
Thanks for the video! Although all it showed me was it was too much effort. On my Thinkpads there's just a flap exposing the RAM. I opened this up and though where's the DIMM slot? Maybe the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard? Wait, it's upside down, how do I get to the other side?
Hi guys, I was thinking about upgrading my RAM on my Asus X501A. And I've got some questions... 1) I'm currently at 4GB and IÄm planing going up to 16GB. Will there be a problem with such a "big" upgrade? 2) I have run the programm "CPUID CPU-Z". It says that there a 3 free slots. Is it normal ? Thanks !
It depends only on wich cpu installed on it. In my case a Celeron B830 with its IMC (integrated memory controller) that can address 16 GiB of DDR3 1333 MT/s. ark.intel.com/it/products/71141/Intel-Celeron-Processor-B830-2M-Cache-1_80-GHz
Hi sseiyah! The video is very interesting. I have the same notebook X501A, same processor B980 2,40 Ghz, but with 2gb ram. What do you think, could I upgrade to 8 gb from 2 gb ram??? Thank you
Hello! Thank you for this video! I have this laptop but 2GB ram and can I upgrade to 8GB from 2GB? and which ram you'll recommend? Second question: Can I upgrade video card also? Thank you so much!
Oz du Soleil There's just some laptops that are so annoying to update and I am questioning myself on why I bought something like this... Thought it would be a standard thing to have easily accessible ram. I'm happy my model came with this built in ram and another port on the reachable from the back
im a little surprised there isnt a spot on the bottom of the laptop where u can uncrew a portion of the back to change the ram. that would be waaaay easier! lol. question: i have a 2 gig stick from another laptop. does this laptop usually come with 1 stick of 4gigs or are there 2 dimm slots and would it be possible for the computer to have two sticks of 2gigs? id like to be able to ^grade using a stick from my other unused laptop. also, would i have to have the same type of ram for it to wrk
my Asus x501a doesn't boot up. the screen is black and you can hear the hard drive spin for a bit then stop. the fan starts to run after about 2 mins and then stops and then starts after bout 30 secs. I have two lights on front of laptop the left one and right one. any ideas to what's wrong
I want to be sure if the upgrade worked fine. I contacted ASUS and they say it can only support up to 4GB. I see towards the end of the video that BIOS is recognizing it. However, when you turned windows on, did it show the upgraded ram in task manager?
It's weird that adults will scream like goddamned spoiled children in the comments field of youtube, all over a budget laptop. You can pick these up at "deals" sites now for $200-250. The motherboard has good parts, namely it's sata-iii, so very fast with an SSD. It also has USB 3. Upgrade with an SSD and RAM and you have a great, fast computer that you can use for things like a media server, or a powerful office computer. I run Ubuntu (and Windows) on mine it use it for everything from media server to home automation to security to backup. It's definitely true that the trackpad on this thing is horrible. I use an external mouse or I remote in from another computer. One more tip if you must use the trackpad: use tapping and double-tapping instead of fumbling with the trackpad buttons. It's much more accurate that way. Also, upgrading is hard. This was designed to be a cheap budget laptop and part of keeping it cheap was just to throw the guts into single pieces of plastic instead of spending extra on design and additional parts.
is it worth it to upgrade it all? to 8gb RAM, and a 500 SSD? Will it be actually faster? I'm running a map maker program, with 8 gb RAM already, and its still pretty slow. Its still very laggy
Hey i was wondering can you upgrade the ram to a 16 GB ? Because I'm not sure if I saw 2 slots were u can put another ram in there ? Is there a 2sec slot ? ️an can u upgrade it to 16Gb
Hello guys. I want to thanks sseiyah for very good tutorial :D But I have got a question for all of you. My X501A actually have Core i3 on Sandy Bridge HM76 Chipset, what do you think, what is the best processor that i can upgrade from i3?
hi!... were you able to upgrade successfully? I have a extra laptop i7 processor and wanted to upgrade aswell... but I haven't found any links or videos of anyone having it done to this model
Braden Bare there's some online forums that list ram for each type of laptop, but I've been having compatibility issues with certain cards I already own so that's something a bit different :/
If you type the model of your laptop online you can find links on google that will lead to things that will work and if you aren't sure still look at your laptop model on forums where people post questions/answers and your laptop model will be there with all the helpful tips people wanted to know about it. This includes RAM and other common problems that people know about the laptop. :) Hope that helps! But the problem I'm facing is that I have RAM that I installed and it isn't recognized by my laptop so it's physically installed, but it shows no signs of it software wise.
Ah okay. I've already looked up my laptop online, though. It's the same one in this video, so it would use the same RAM cards. I was just wondering if he could post where he got them.
Is it possible to upgrade the cpu on this laptop? I have the exact same one except mine has a intel i3-2350m, I googles but get mixed answers, is the cpu soldered to the motherboard on this laptop?
Ian Cavalcanti did you watch a video or view a thread on how to do it? I heard the cpu on this PC might be soldered, was yours soldered to the motherboard? Anything helps, I really want to avoid buying another computer.
It's not soldered but you should notice that if you have a HM70 chipset, Intel locked it down so if you upgrade your Pentium Ivy CPU to a I5/I7 Ivy the computer will work but reboot every 30 min
All the idiots at Asus needed to do was put a memory door on the back side of the computer. Also as I'm typing this on the x501 I've hit the ALT button instead of space so many times because they lengthened the CTRL button and shortened the space bar. Makes a lot of sense huh? Returning this garbage immediately.
+Jake Sully If this guy has actually done it, and not just looked it, disregard. But I recall convos about this on notebook forums, and I'm pretty sure that while it appears you could put in a higher processor, the motherboard will not accept it. I could be wrong. I got rid of this thing several months ago.
DO NOT GET THIS Laptop. The touchpad button combo is truly awful and WAY too far left. Just look at the pics and you will see yourself. Keyboard is horrible because of the short space bar. You will constantly see words stuck together. Upgrading the RAM? Well you can see yourself how dumb this is. I got a dell latitude 3330 a little smaller (13.3) not as good looking but WAY better keyboard, mouse and buttons. AND they have 2 mem slots! Mem AND HDD is behind 1 Door/screw. On sale $300.
What a ridiculous amount of hassle just to get to the Ram. I hate the design of this laptop.
You are far better than other dudes.I have an other problem but you explain things very good
That is INSANE...You had to do all that just to upgrade memory on that laptop???. ASUS Blows!!!!
+Giovanni Masi No just take the back cover off I don't know why he did all of that
+NJ Crazy Gamer Wait maybe not
+NJ Crazy Gamer i own this laptop, its not that simple. you need to remove the keyboard and can't access from the bottom, its still not very hard
+Giovanni Masi This guy is an idiot. This is not how you add RAM to any laptop known on the face of the planet. There is a back panel that is even shown in his video (2:59) when he tips everything over. Its one screw and pop the panel out. Even if there was no panel, common sense should tell you that if you have to remove EVERYTHING from the front only to tip it over to get to the back, that you should instead remove the back and not the front.
+Radical Moderate There is no removable back panel, I have the same model. Everything he has done is proper way
Hi sseiyah. Thanks for this video and the other two. This worked for my ASUS F501A. I have just upgraded the wifi card to an Intel AC7260 and it works perfectly. Not only do I now have faster wifi but I also have internal bluetooth now. I downloaded and installed the Intel Pro Set drivers before the upgrade and the new wifi card was recognised as soon as I turned the computer back on after the upgrade. Your videos were a great help.
You forget to connect LED wires. Notice it in video. It will help many peoples don't do the same.
It was kind of hard to understand you because you sounded in a hurry and breathing hard. But, this was help! Thanks very much.
it works for my asus x301a 4Gb->8Gb ! Thanks a lot !
ram SO DIMM - 8gb- PC3L - 1333mhz - 12800 cl11 - 1.35v
Thank you for the walk through, worked out very well.
This video guide should have saved my hours of efforts. Tons of Thanks.
Just did this with my Asus X501a Runs much better with 8GB ram in it. But might wanna be carful when taking the motherboard apart. my Laptop left hinge screw holes broke off so I had to order a new bottom base. but other then that everything works great. Great video!
I ended up with the screws by the hinges that are longer not being able to screw back in because the 2 plastic pieces with the nuts in them broke off. This computer sure is made with dinky cheap plastic.
Just in case anyone is considering this upgrade for the X501U sister model of this laptop, despite both machines being very similar the memory is non-upgradable in this model. I have gone through the above procedure and found that the memory chips are soldered therefore there is no DIMM slot on the board anywhere. Bummer!
***** I know the feeling >_
Saved me taking the x501u apart. Thank you.
Thank you my friend, I have a X555LD and I think that I have to do the same that you did. Thank you boy!!!!
I just wanted to let people know that I was able to replace the wifi card in my x501a with an intel centrino card and it works just fine.
Hi, wich one Intel Certino was?
Just so you guys know, The laptop had 8gb of ram, not 4gb. 1 4gb stick is located in the back which is way easier to get to but the other one is located deeper within the comuter as he demonstrated. Yes Asus is kinda messed up for seperating the locations of the 2 spots but oh well
I did not see any other ram slots in these model... even an online hardware scan Said 1 slot...
Can you confirm this has 2 slots? Which processor do you have?
thank you for this video. I replaced my thermal paste dissembling it like this
Thanks for the tutorial. Well-explained. :)
ASUS would do some shit like this lol. I knew as soon as I unscrewed the bottom it was a tedious job.
Thanks a lot it save our day :-)
IS THAT Corsair CMSX8GX3M1A1600C10 Vengeance 8GB Laptop Memory Upgrade Kit (Black) ?????
It would appear if you have 2GB, you have a different version of this laptop. Make sure the company has a good return policy and match up the speed to the chip thats currently installed. Laptops dont have video cards, so no way to upgrade them.
What's the maximum amount of RAM you can place in the X501U model?
I keep getting conflicting messages on if it's 4gb or 8gb.
Did u get an answer how much it is
I’m gonna upgrade my celeron b830 to an i5 2520m, wish me luck!
did it work?
it did sort of, the i5 did work but after 30 mins it shutdown because of the hm70 chipset. I instead bought a pentium 2030m, the best this chipset would be compatible with
I just got the X502, similar dissasembly, but the RAM is soldered to the board. No upgrading it. The drive HAS to be 7mm and the wireless can be upgraded.
Do you know if the ram in the 502ca can be upgraded?
Thanks for the video! Although all it showed me was it was too much effort. On my Thinkpads there's just a flap exposing the RAM. I opened this up and though where's the DIMM slot? Maybe the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard? Wait, it's upside down, how do I get to the other side?
Hi guys,
I was thinking about upgrading my RAM on my Asus X501A. And I've got some questions...
1) I'm currently at 4GB and IÄm planing going up to 16GB. Will there be a problem with such a "big" upgrade?
2) I have run the programm "CPUID CPU-Z". It says that there a 3 free slots. Is it normal ?
Thanks !
It depends only on wich cpu installed on it. In my case a Celeron B830 with its IMC (integrated memory controller) that can address 16 GiB of DDR3 1333 MT/s. ark.intel.com/it/products/71141/Intel-Celeron-Processor-B830-2M-Cache-1_80-GHz
What are the 2 black rectangles at the bottom of the laptop? The little connector you didnt unplug had 2 of the wire come loose on mine.
Thanks mate!
Hi sseiyah! The video is very interesting. I have the same notebook X501A, same processor B980 2,40 Ghz, but with 2gb ram. What do you think, could I upgrade to 8 gb from 2 gb ram??? Thank you
Is it possible to upgrade the X301A to 8gb too or not? Will the motherboard support it? I read that the max supported ram is 4gb..
You see that because there is no easy way to get in and change the RAM. This motherboard does indeed support 8GB of RAM in its single slot.
Gregory F Really sure of this? would be great, which ram would you recommend?
+Gregory F can you tell me which ram you bought? If i google X301A compatible ram i get a list but i want to be sure
+Pieterjan P Hi I'm sorry that computer is long replaced. I imagine I either used a website like crucial, or else I googled and found it elsewhere.
very good
I have the same asus and I was was told that it won't recognize 8gbs!:o so does it really work?
at least crucial says it does
Hello! Thank you for this video! I have this laptop but 2GB ram and can I upgrade to 8GB from 2GB? and which ram you'll recommend? Second question: Can I upgrade video card also? Thank you so much!
Please tell maximum processor requirement for asus X501A 15.6 leptop i wating for your answer ???
You can try a Core i3 2350M with Sandy Bridge core...same tdp of 35 Watt as my Celeron B830.
Seems like an awful lot of effort just to upgrade your RAM.
Matthew Dolby Yeah. What happened to the days of a door with 1 screw that would provide access to the RAM?
Oz du Soleil There's just some laptops that are so annoying to update and I am questioning myself on why I bought something like this... Thought it would be a standard thing to have easily accessible ram. I'm happy my model came with this built in ram and another port on the reachable from the back
im a little surprised there isnt a spot on the bottom of the laptop where u can uncrew a portion of the back to change the ram. that would be waaaay easier! lol. question: i have a 2 gig stick from another laptop. does this laptop usually come with 1 stick of 4gigs or are there 2 dimm slots and would it be possible for the computer to have two sticks of 2gigs? id like to be able to ^grade using a stick from my other unused laptop. also, would i have to have the same type of ram for it to wrk
my Asus x501a doesn't boot up. the screen is black and you can hear the hard drive spin for a bit then stop. the fan starts to run after about 2 mins and then stops and then starts after bout 30 secs. I have two lights on front of laptop the left one and right one. any ideas to what's wrong
Did you have any compatiblity issues with the RAM? I watched a video on an X401a, and the guy had issues..
i am done with Asus, looking at this video I don't even want to try but to sell this unit and get another one.
idk but can u just add 8gb to the 4gb. cos there are two slots.. i noticed u removed the 4gb... i just wanna know
I want to be sure if the upgrade worked fine. I contacted ASUS and they say it can only support up to 4GB. I see towards the end of the video that BIOS is recognizing it. However, when you turned windows on, did it show the upgraded ram in task manager?
If BIOS recognized it, Windows will surely work as well. Of course, make sure it's a 64-bit version because of memory addressing.
It's weird that adults will scream like goddamned spoiled children in the comments field of youtube, all over a budget laptop. You can pick these up at "deals" sites now for $200-250. The motherboard has good parts, namely it's sata-iii, so very fast with an SSD. It also has USB 3. Upgrade with an SSD and RAM and you have a great, fast computer that you can use for things like a media server, or a powerful office computer. I run Ubuntu (and Windows) on mine it use it for everything from media server to home automation to security to backup.
It's definitely true that the trackpad on this thing is horrible. I use an external mouse or I remote in from another computer. One more tip if you must use the trackpad: use tapping and double-tapping instead of fumbling with the trackpad buttons. It's much more accurate that way.
Also, upgrading is hard. This was designed to be a cheap budget laptop and part of keeping it cheap was just to throw the guts into single pieces of plastic instead of spending extra on design and additional parts.
Dope
is it worth it to upgrade it all? to 8gb RAM, and a 500 SSD? Will it be actually faster? I'm running a map maker program, with 8 gb RAM already, and its still pretty slow. Its still very laggy
any know if this laptop can be replaced the wifi card? I can't see anything like a wifi card on the mainboard (in this video).
How much diffrence did this make ? And do you have a link to the memory i need ?
Asus X501a keyboard touchpad ribbon cable looking i need your help
Hello, I have an asus x501a - xx381. Asus says it has 1 memory slot and max ram 4gb.
Do you know if I can upgrade to 8 gb ddr3 1600 mhz? Thank you.
Hey i was wondering can you upgrade the ram to a 16 GB ? Because I'm not sure if I saw 2 slots were u can put another ram in there ? Is there a 2sec slot ? ️an can u upgrade it to 16Gb
I have an Asus f501A is that the same as the Asus X501A i cant find the F on the asus website but i can find the X. What is the difference?
can you do the same for X301A? Does it in fact support 8GB? Some sites suggests that 4GB is the max.
Can i do the same with asus X750JB ?
I have integral battrey and i think the ram is under the keyboard .
Am i right ?
Hello guys. I want to thanks sseiyah for very good tutorial :D
But I have got a question for all of you. My X501A actually have Core i3 on Sandy Bridge HM76 Chipset, what do you think, what is the best processor that i can upgrade from i3?
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hi!... were you able to upgrade successfully? I have a extra laptop i7 processor and wanted to upgrade aswell... but I haven't found any links or videos of anyone having it done to this model
what is the best 8G ram in terms of quality and performance ?!!!!!
There is only one port for ram ??? And can i put graphic card here ???
sseiyah Could you post a link to the RAM card you used? I can't find them anywhere.
Braden Bare there's some online forums that list ram for each type of laptop, but I've been having compatibility issues with certain cards I already own so that's something a bit different :/
I'm sorry. I'm a little bit confused by what you just said.
If you type the model of your laptop online you can find links on google that will lead to things that will work and if you aren't sure still look at your laptop model on forums where people post questions/answers and your laptop model will be there with all the helpful tips people wanted to know about it. This includes RAM and other common problems that people know about the laptop. :) Hope that helps! But the problem I'm facing is that I have RAM that I installed and it isn't recognized by my laptop so it's physically installed, but it shows no signs of it software wise.
Ah okay. I've already looked up my laptop online, though. It's the same one in this video, so it would use the same RAM cards. I was just wondering if he could post where he got them.
Why does it have only 1 RAM slot?
60-100 $ Depends on brand and speed.
which type of memory did you use?
Will It Show The New 8 GB Ram In Computer Properties?
Hello, does this model have 1 RAM slot?
do u think i made much of a difference to the laptop
Hi! does x455ld have 1 or 2 slots ram? thanks
It is hard when we compared to thoshiba
Is the CPU stuck to the mobo? Can I upgrade it?
will it work on x502c ?? thanks for reply
How much is it? The 8GB ram?
will this work on asus x401u i want upgrade to 4gb
what type of ram do i need to install it?
Can I upgrade my X501U????
I was told it had two memory slots sold I bought another 4 gig and opened up the laptop what a waste of time
Will this work for a asus x501u?
have asus x751LN...insert 8 Gb ...not work...how make it to see ??.?????
it is possible that probably it is not the proper RAM. do research and figure out which RAMs are compatible with your computer.
Supporta 16gb di ram?
Can I replace Intel procesor in that laptop ?
NO LOL
Shino Kanbe
yes i can. it's not intergraded
+Tin Cole sorry i mean it depends
You are amaizing technician :) Please, don't disassembly any laptop's again, you'r not born for this job!
only one ram!?
so this model has only one ram card slot???
It has two just one is more accessible then the other
does it have multiple RAM slots? because it really like to triple my RAM by adding 8GB rather than just doubling it
Nope, far as I'm aware it only contains ONE ddr3 RAM slot.
yeah it does, i already replaced it and found out
@@liambass4416 Can you confirm this has 2 slots? Which processor do you have?
How many slots are there for the RAM? It looked like two to me...
just one.
Only one on my F501A and from the video the X501A only has one slot as well.
I have the same PC
This is really bad! damn! how can i upgrade my memory/.... anyway thanks for the video... at least i know what am heading to what i want to do.
Is it possible to upgrade the cpu on this laptop? I have the exact same one except mine has a intel i3-2350m, I googles but get mixed answers, is the cpu soldered to the motherboard on this laptop?
there is no laptop on earth where you can upgrade the cpu, there might be a few but it can't be done
I've upgraded the CPU on the X501A from a Pentium 2020M to a Core i5 3230m, and it works
MrDreadwing108 Yes it is I've upgraded my X501A from a Pentium 2020M to a i5 3230m
Ian Cavalcanti did you watch a video or view a thread on how to do it? I heard the cpu on this PC might be soldered, was yours soldered to the motherboard? Anything helps, I really want to avoid buying another computer.
It's not soldered but you should notice that if you have a HM70 chipset, Intel locked it down so if you upgrade your Pentium Ivy CPU to a I5/I7 Ivy the computer will work but reboot every 30 min
Has anyone tried a 16gb ram for this laptop?
Sakka san yeah, 8gb is enough.
All the idiots at Asus needed to do was put a memory door on the back side of the computer. Also as I'm typing this on the x501 I've hit the ALT button instead of space so many times because they lengthened the CTRL button and shortened the space bar. Makes a lot of sense huh? Returning this garbage immediately.
why??? just take the back cover off
it isn't that simple on this computer, I have one and you have to do what he did.
Fuck.. that.. shit.
Never buying an ASSus again.
can i upgrade or change the processor??
Nope
Sorry mate i was rong. I thought this video was the Asus x551mav on that laptop you cant change the processer
+Jake Sully If this guy has actually done it, and not just looked it, disregard. But I recall convos about this on notebook forums, and I'm pretty sure that while it appears you could put in a higher processor, the motherboard will not accept it. I could be wrong. I got rid of this thing several months ago.
DO NOT GET THIS Laptop. The touchpad button combo is truly awful and WAY too far left. Just look at the pics and you will see yourself. Keyboard is horrible because of the short space bar. You will constantly see words stuck together. Upgrading the RAM? Well you can see yourself how dumb this is. I got a dell latitude 3330 a little smaller (13.3) not as good looking but WAY better keyboard, mouse and buttons. AND they have 2 mem slots! Mem AND HDD is behind 1 Door/screw. On sale $300.
that is terrrible
does this work on the X551CA model?
Will it work on a x551m?
Yes