My Acer One has a really really old chipset.

[ishiverwhenipee]

The specification from this website says Acer Aspire One has a Mobile Intel 945GSE Express chipset. Mine has Mobile Intel 945GME chipset. I went to Intel.com website and compared the two chipsets together and I found out that the GSE version came out in Q2 of 2008 and GME version came out in Q1 of 2006. Omg!!! I've been had! :? Anyone with GME version?? Go to Settings and it should say there what you have.

 

[judeh101]

you probably installed the wrong driver or something, because old chipset don't support Atom.
Intel 945GSE is the only new chipset to support Atom.......

 

[ishiverwhenipee]

I'm a newbie and I just got the laptop 2 weeks ago. I never installed anything except for the Live Update that prompted me to install updates for the Acer.

 

[bjc]

Im afraid mine is the GME chipset also
Ive installed some software and done some live updates but I dont really see how the chipset report would change with a S/W update
Cheers
PS Mine is the Linux (110) model - Id be interested to hear if its different for a Win system

 

[celeriman]

If you had the GME chipset, that means you can install up to 4GB of RAM!! That would be a yay to me...

533/667 MHz front-side bus; Up to 4 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SODIMM system memory; Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (Intel® GMA 950); PCI Express* external graphics support

http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/embedded/945gme.htm

 

[judeh101]

GME is not possible to run Atom. just to tell you guys. but it will run Core 2 duos or celerons

 

[bjc]

Certainly from the Intel Site
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/

> Related products : Chipsets
> Netbooks - Mobile Intel® 945GSE Express Chipset
> Nettops - Intel® 945GC Express Chipset

But does this imply that it cant run the GME ?

Why does the "Settings > System Information > Multimedia" screen give:
> Inter945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

I would rather like to know because that may allow 2GB Ram to be added into the spare slot and I could certainly dispense with any swap partition and maybe somehow map /tmp into RAM.

Please, judeh101, dont just say:
"GME is not possible to run Atom. just to tell you guys."
when the system indicats that it IS. - at least provide a reference

Cheers

 

[callmeishmael]

Guys, I would'nt rely so much on the hw identification provided by the sistem settings.

 

[hmmwv]

Both CPU-Z and GPU-Z report i945GME chipset, and we know at least CPU-Z supports the Atom platform, so misreport is unlikely.

 

[judeh101]

it might be both bug with the programs, you'd never know. GME and GSE are physically different chips, GME has a die on the chip, and GSE has a plastic black cap on the northbridge plus it is smaller.
And plus installing the wrong working driver may have this problem too.

 

[SbM]

I would rather like to know because that may allow 2GB Ram to be added into the spare slot and I could certainly dispense with any swap partition and maybe somehow map /tmp into RAM.

Installing a 2GB RAM module DOESN'T work. All those who tried have reported failure. That's a dead end, mate, sorry.

 

[Sid]

I would rather like to know because that may allow 2GB Ram to be added into the spare slot and I could certainly dispense with any swap partition and maybe somehow map /tmp into RAM.

You can do this with a 1gb stick.

There are also threads that discuss,claiming back the space used by the swap partition.

 

[bjc]

Installing a 2GB RAM module DOESN'T work.

There are also threads that discuss,claiming back the space used by the swap partition.

Yep, thanks guys Ive now found those threads.

I must admit that a 2Gig stick doesn't really bother me that much any more.
I do go into swap but not by much so a total of 1.5Gb RAM would cover my needs and I could say ta-ta to Swap
- regaining 1G of SSD and avoiding its overuse (?).

Although the point is now moot for me, I suppose Ill find which chipset it is when the RAM goes in.

Cheers

 

[Sid]

Take a look at some of the teardown or ram upgrade images, there are loads - google.

I am sure you can view mobo details from the images.