Comments on: MSI: Upgrading Wind RAM Voids Warranty

By: ken froehly

ken froehly — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:30:18 +0000

my u100 doesnt power up. it could be the switch and asking if any parts are available.

By: Owen

Owen — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:05:46 +0000

My MSI Wind U100 has the slot, and the 1GB upgrade seems to work. I noticed that the existing 1GB memory is soldered to the motherboard right above the DIMM socket (hidden under the foil between the DIMM socket and battery connector in your photo — my netbook doesn’t have the foil), and is made up of four Hynix HY5PS1G1631C chips (http://www.hynix.com/datasheet/pdf/dram/HY5PS1G4(8.16)31C(L)FP(Rev0.3).pdf). Soldering it on the motherboard, rather than in a slot as you suggest, probably keeps the cost of the netbook down. Also, for @Agnivo Roy, in the BIOS there seems to be an option to disable the onboard DRAM.

By: Roland Szigeti

Roland Szigeti — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:59:31 +0000

There is no RM slot on my lapt.

By: noone

noone — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:43:29 +0000

[quote]
# Fernie from LA Says:
May 21st, 2009 at 2:55 am

I was thinking about buying a Wind but with the warranty situation as it is I will go ahead and just get an Asus and kick it up to 2gigs without worry. Sorry Wind with policies like this one you just lost a customer.
[/quote]

they did lost a non-reader customer for sure.

By: Fernie from LA

Fernie from LA — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:55:40 +0000

By: The Online Boat Parts Store

The Online Boat Parts Store — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:51:06 +0000

I recently upgraded from the DDR2 on my wind to a second stick, with no fallout my speed is great I have had this machine for a couple of years. didnt know about the void warranty though, I will have to call MSI to see if I goofed…lol

By: Mattgew

Mattgew — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:29:20 +0000

In regards to Kevin’s coment above, the Wind comes with a DDR2 667mhz type RAM , so you can either upgrade a second stick at the same speed, or disable on board ram and buy a 2GB 800mhz RAM stick.

i did the later using corsair gaming RAM , this allows for a more stable overclock plus speed is nicer

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:30:46 +0000

I’m not at all technical and have recently purchased a 2GB RAM stick that does match the same kind of RAM that’s in this netbook… but after reading some posts, it sounds like I can only upgrade with an additional 1GB stick, yes?

Here’s the RAM that I purchased…

http://www.cesell.com/product.php?productid=131710

By: MSI Noob

MSI Noob — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:46:23 +0000

Just a note: I contacted MSI Support and they confirmed that it will not void the warranty. I also had them send me an email stating that it would not for posterity.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:45:57 +0000

In case anyone is still nervous, here’s proof that the warranty remains intact:
http://flexandair.com/files/MSI_official_response.mp3