Re: Re: upgrading RAM (grx550)

On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 14:30, John Andersen wrote:



> Note that the grx7xx series are built on the same mobo as my grx570
> and they have two slots and Sony site says they will go to 1 gig. 
> My business partner just picked up one of those.

As far as I can tell the GRX5xx, 6xx, and 7xx series are ALL on the same
motherboard with everything EXACTLY the same except what they throw into
the machine.   I can confirm I've personally upgraded my 600K to 1.5GB
of Ram (has 2 slots) and a 2.4Ghz processor.  I dug around my warranty
and called Sony and they said so long as I don't hurt anything I can
change these items w/o violating my warranty -- albeit if anything ever
has problems, I plan on taking what I've added OUT and putting in the
OLD parts.  I'm curious if these systems can go up to 2GB, I suspect
they may be able to -- but there may be a bios limitation on this??? 

Also, can anyone confirm the rumour I've heard that these mobo's have a
daughter-board for the video chipset?  Meaning we could potentially
upgrade the video card??

PS:  I ordered a "replacement part" from Sony for a +/- DVDRW, I'm glad
to say it came in good condition and works quite well -- I sent back my
old DVD-RW w/ complaints and paid the extra money to get the upgraded
replacement part instead.


J/