The Acer Revo 3700 thread

[kmanpilkers]

This thread just saved my life (or at least it feels that way!).

I just made the same mistake as the OP by meddling and trying to flash the BIOS for no real reason other than I can't get Wake on LAN working and it's annoying me. The exact same thing was happening to me, a BSOD and then immediate reboot after succesfully flashing the chip and starting Windows.

It turns out the solution was the SATA mode - it was set to AHCI and it should be in Native IDE. You can set this by entering BIOS with del at startup, and going to "Integrated Peripherals". This has stopped the immediate bluescreen for me anyway, so I just hope this helps someone else out.

So relieved I found this thread! Hopefully this will stop me messing in future (I doubt it). Thanks again.

Kev

[Harrison]

Glad this helped you out.

[J T]

Did you get wake on lan to work? I had a brief fiddle with it and couldn't get it to work. I'm tempted to go back to it again and have another go, as it would be useful - especially if I can get it set up with my Harmony One and an IR receiver. The iphone apps for controlling XBMC are.... OK.... but the remote would probably work better, and is almost as tech-fancy.

[duke66]

I have had my Revo 3700 for a while and have tried to upgrade to 4g ram. Mine came with 2 1g sticks installed. If I install any other rem I don't even get to the boot up beep. I have tried 2 2g sticks and 1 4g stick. Even if I only install 1 2g stick it won't boot. It is the same ram as it came with just faster. Any ideas out there?

[Harrison]

Are you sure it supports larger sized ram? If it does then you may need to manually set the ram timings in the bios.

[duke66]

It is Windows 7, 64 bit so it should. My bios has very few options I can change. I don't see anything about ram timing.

[J T]

It is the same ram as it came with just faster. Any ideas out there?

I wonder if it could be picky, even about the speed... There are threads on places like avforums and xbmc that have links to RAM people have bought and successfully installed that you should be able to find fairly easily (I don't have any links off hand, but know I have seen them). Other than that, have you tested those sticks of RAM that you bought in anything else?