{"id":107,"date":"2008-02-29T23:45:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T05:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-02-29T23:45:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T05:45:53","slug":"picture-post-suzakus-operation-on-the-lab-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Picture Post: Suzaku&#8217;s Operation on the Lab Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; I got my RAM in yesterday and the modification part of me went absolutely nutty! I removed the sticks from the Crucial\/Newegg parcel and beheld the RAM in their electro-static shielding bags.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2254\/2299931242_c2b5fed9aa_d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After beholding the RAM, I had to get my &#8220;tools&#8221; for the procedure. The tools of the trade: a magnetic tip screwdriver with a small bit-driver and a vintage Revlon nail file to be my &#8220;scribe&#8221; tool to pry up the plastic bezel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3280\/2299136689_d2ecb6a6d3_d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would go ahead and loosen the screws holding in the plastic bezel as a preparatory step so I would have to have less hassle with that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2091\/2299135081_925b651285_d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would unbolt the second DIMM slot and replace the first stick as it is the easiest to access.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The original stick of 256mb<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2411\/2299931596_09d8a2bfaf_d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Prepping for the Operation&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3100\/2299931960_92699a0cef_d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the 1GB versus the 256mb!<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2014\/2299135949_0215f0c8a5_d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bolting up the first stick<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3056\/2299932480_c9d1b42bbb_d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next daunting part was using the nail file to slowly pry up the plastic bezel without breaking anything. Luckily, the bezel doesn&#8217;t require too much pressure to pop off. After the bezel came off, it was time to pry off the keyboard and then find DIMM slot 1 waiting for me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3203\/2299136291_91dd11bfe7_d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After popping offer the DIMM 1 cover I&#8217;d drop in the second 1GB stick and &#8220;sew the incision site&#8221; to a close&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check it out! A 1GB stick literally &#8220;under the hood&#8221;!<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2383\/2299136529_08d43e0126_d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After every screw was bolted up, the Dell PhoenixBIOS had a &#8220;cute&#8221; message saying &#8220;It appears you have increased RAM installed on this system&#8221;. I would take Maczimus&#8217;s advice and get Preload installed to cut load times from programs&#8230; After the install&#8230; I would notice a surprising drop in load times. For example, Open Office Writer went from 15 &#8211; 20 seconds to now 2.3 seconds. VirtualBox seems to lap up the 1GB of allocated RAM from my total 2GB and it was wonderful! I would say that the install was rather great and it&#8217;s shows that RAM does make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; I got my RAM in yesterday and the modification part of me went absolutely nutty! I removed the sticks from the Crucial\/Newegg parcel and beheld the RAM in their electro-static shielding bags. After beholding the RAM, I had to get my &#8220;tools&#8221; for the procedure. The tools of the trade: a magnetic tip screwdriver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Picture Post: Suzaku&#8217;s Operation on the Lab Table<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[47,133,586,132,585],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","tag-fun","tag-laptop","tag-personal","tag-suzaku","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdVBT-1J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}