What is the best flash file format to use

VanguardLH wrote:
default wrote:

Believe me, I checked that out. The model she has,
has about eight
screws holding the bottom on and no other trap-doors or removable
appendages like a battery. I Googled it and the info I found said HDD
memory is soldered in. A114-31 series.

Ah, finally more details. I found a Youtube video at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62O7bWGkjxY

That's on the A114-31-C4HH which might be close to your netbook's
configuration. The author says the RAM and HDD are soldered onto the
mothboard. If soldering is with leads (the component is laid onto the
PCB with leads going through blivets and soldered on the opposite side)
then you could replace the components if you had the tools (solder iron,
wick, solder sucker) and the expertise; however, finding a replacement
drive would be very tough as the drives are probably special order by
Acer, so they're the only ones with the drives (which they likely won't
sell individually as the bigger drives are used to "drive" consumers to
buy the pricier netbook configurations).

32GB storage would be eMMC in a BGA package.
You'd need a hot air station to replace that.
64GB and maybe even 128GB replacements exist.
That's the "disk drive".

The RAM could be TSOP or BGA. The processor
isn't actually that bad, as it's dual channel
and has a decent upper limit on RAM. The processor
costs $107. I thought it was going to be
the $17 processor, but it's not. It's a higher
priced one, a "mid tier".

If the RAM is soldered down, they could limit the
amount of RAM to a single rank. There might only
be lands for eight chips. If you wanted to
extend the RAM, maybe you'd need space to solder
down thirty two chips total. You can't alway find
higher capacity chips (four times larger) when
you need one. In this case, the RAM may not
currently be up to the CPU limit, so maybe it
could be upgraded, if there was space for
all the chips.

Paul