Almost 7 years later and this video is still relevant, thank you for taking the time to make this instructional video.

I just upgraded my HDD to the Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB. This video had been a big help so a big thanks to Steve. To add, it can get a bit tricky prying open the bottom cover at first after getting out the 12 screws. What I did is to pull out the SD slot plastic placeholder first. Then get a small flat head screwdriver and insert in the SD slot as leverage. Slowly pry the cover ever so slightly just to get a fingernail in between the cover and the body.

Thanks for this. It showed me what I needed to see to upgrade the RAM.

Hey there. I upgraded the factory HD on this exact model today with an SSD drive. I had to use an adapter for, as I had a leftover mSATA SSD drive from a main desktop upgrade (went from a 256Gb to a 500Gb on desktop). The 256Gb drive I threw in a 7mm adapter, and got it up and running. Your video was a big help there, knowing what to look out for. Thumbs up! :)

I have a couple of new ones for today. I want to increase the rate of new videos for sure. Thx for feedback. Nice to know someone is watching and waiting!

From there, proceed to peel off the cover until you can slide it past the audio port connector. At 4:20, you don't need to mess around with the fragile cable. At 4:40 he unscrewed one side of the mini pcb holding the audio and USB2.0 ports. Just unscrew the other side and you can get that cable harmlessly out of the way.

hey, thanks for the reply! sure there is! i subscribed to your channel long time ago, when i was about to buy an ultrabook and needed some advices (i even asked you a question about one of them and u gave me an answer, which was well appreciated!). even tho i've got it since then and not planning on buying a new one, i still keep watching ALL your vids, because your reviews arent just very precise and objective, but you are very entertaining as well! so keep going, cheers

Thanks for the video I was actually looking for how to upgrade ram but upgrading the Hard Drive is a great idea and pretty cheep also so thanks again Great Job

Make sure you remove the SSD card (or factory fitted dummy SSD card) from the SSD slot on the right BEFORE attempting to remove the base, otherwise you will break the SSD slot!

Hello! Thank you very much for your video. I can see that you upgraded the RAM. I putted 2 more GB to the 2 GB installed but the system can only use 1,45 on W7 64 bit. Thank you very much in advance.

Just installed an SSD in my unit, every thing went fabulously successful. I would suggest that instead of disconnecting the ribbon cable, just remove the screw to the audio module circuit board and lift it up. That ribbon cable is entirely too delicate to mess with, if it can be avoided.

Thanks A LOT! I have one of these and I find the HDD slow, so I'm going to do this mod as well. How do I go about copying my OEM W8 to the new SSD?

Not tested yet but there's usually a 5%-10% advantage if you upgrade to SSD.

I assume max hight of the 7mm drive When testing windows 8 or 10 boot speed make sure you turn off fast startup in power options as I bet you turned that on from a shutdown (witch is a hibernate state in Windows 8 so it started up faster), just below the options that say password on wake up there is a ruck box that says fast start up (when ticked only a reboot is a clean shutdown, I unpick it on all systems as had Pepole with 40 days uptime and was causing problems )

thanks. I was affraid of breaking that flat cable on top of the drive. I was also putting back that screw in the wrong place but I remembered the video :D

thanks, didn't know how to remove the white strip over the HDD

why are the videos so rare these days? one new video review every 2 weeks, there were times when you uploaded 2 or 3 vids per week!

Hi Steve! Is the v5-122p SATA 3 ? Thank you!

Thank you! This really helped!

Been trying to install Windows 10 to this notebook but no luck. Tried to different SSD's. I'm using a flashed iso from rufus.

I was having trouble installing SSD i didnt enable f12 but when trying to recover it didnt even do that with the usb hdd

How do you find the ssd for the aspire v5 122?

In theory, yes. I don't see any way that the manufacturer would know you opened it up though.

Is it the v5-122p-0408? Can you please make a better explained video? I'm considering to improve mine because it is PAINFULLY slow, but I'm new in these kind of things so...

HI, I follewed you video...but when I start the laptop with the new SDD I obtain a black screen...and also reinstalling the old hdd I obtain the same thing...do you have any suggests for my situation? Thanks

Where exactly is the graphics card located in this device? I was contemplating buying one, but wanted to upgrade a few things.

Thanks for the video!

Is it possible to upgrade the cpu on this laptop?

Thanks for that video! I haven't read the full article yet but here the Things that might be interesting too so far. I've bought the subnotebook from amazon.de for ~370€ [Quad Core Temash Processor] I'm planning on putting also an SSD in it [Samsung 830 Series 128 GB] and opened it once, I would maybe prefer to unplug the battery since the whole motherboard is on power!?! The RAM is splitted, one is soldered on the MB and the other one is normal notebook RAM expandable to 4 GB means 6 GB total. There is a port on the bottom for en external battery but there is none made for the model, but I've spoken to acer's support so there is a compatible battery for the acer Aspire V5 132P that is compatible to this one.. I'm thniking hard about buying one.. So now a big question: is the acer converter cable port able to be used with an display port to HDMI adapter? becouse it's the same plug so far.. So thanks a lot for this Video I feel now confirmed in my intention to rebuild the little beast

Nice video. It's not necessarily Windows 8 that improves boot performance but UEFI. Also doing a drive copy won't necessarily help drive performance much. Clean install would work best.

Do you have to backup cos I don't want any of my old data

At the risk that Steve Paine won't get this because the video is a bit dated, I am going to try anyway I used Acer's utility to make a backup of the system on a 16GB usb drive. Enabled F12 at startup. Then, replaced the HDD with an SSD. It seems as if I get about 70-75% of the way completed in the recovery and then it fails. There are a ton of files on the SSD but I cannot boot to the SSD. It shows in the BIOS after install but, when pressing F12, it is not there after I remove the USB drive from the port. It says that the drive where Windows is installed is locked. Any advice?

Sorry to reply to an old video, but do you know if the processor is removable on this model?

i took the back plate off of the screen flipped it around and turned it into a tablet, i'm typing this on it so it is definitely working.

I have limited knowledge on computers and I need a bit of assistance. I want to install a 240GB SSD on my Acer Aspire 122p. Its the same model used in the video. The hard drive has 500GB and ive used around 220GB of it. I want to put the SSD in my computer, and want to put the photos from the hard drive on the SSD, and keep using the hard drive. (I want the hard drive to be 100% clean after I transfer the photos.) Basically I want to back up my personal files unto the SSD from the HDD. My only problem is that I don't know how to actually transfer the photos once the SSD is in. I'm guessing I need a cable to plug the hard drive in. But where would I find the cable? What's it called? Is it available in a store like Best Buy(my preferred option) or do I need to order it online?? :) Please reply below if you think you can help!

Hello, will work an AMD Opteron X2170 CPU on this model?

Hmm, I have the same notebook Aspire V5 -122p But for some reason according to task manager my CPU is AMD a4 - 1250 APU. Is this A LOT worse than yours?

Hi, Can you say me if I also able to use my Samsung SSD Series Basic 120GB?

Is that the only RAM slot on the chassis?

I just followed this video and now im getting a message that says default boot device missing or boot fail. How do I fix this? thanks

how long to leave loading for the first time

if you got an external disk drive could i install win7

I just tried to upgrade this from 4gb to 6gb with corsair vengeance 1600mhz CL9 ram but it shows it as '4.6gb hardware reserved'. Any idea why this has happened? pretty annoying :/

I have this machine too, how can i lower the fan noise?

Does this void the warranty like on V5-171?

Only if it is 7mm or less in height. Sorry I don't have that info to hand.

how can i on my keyboard acer V5 122p laptop?

Can I upgrade the ram on this computer??

Excellent Thanks Chippy.

i have managed to on a few models

Dude aspire 122p possible to upgrade the cpu?

Sir, if I may, can you pretty please do a benchmark of League of Legends? I'm seriously considering this PC and that is the only metric I can't find benchmarked anywhere. Whether or not it can play LoL would make or break my purchase decision. .

What should I do

Did you disable "fast boot" in Windows 8 when doing your boot-up benchmark. Doesn't look like you did.

Can it take ddr4 ram?

Why this Slimbook only have 4gb ram inside?

Can you do a fresh install of Windows on the SSD without cloning the existing OS from the HDD? Thanks!

I will buy one

If I click fight on display the curser disappear

max ram?

He did that on my birthday

so why specs says it have 6gb?

can it run decent games?

I know this laptop comes with 4gb ram but what is the max you can upgrade to? please help

Yes

Why my PC is so slow please

Is the laptop sata-III or II

So should I install the SSD if I want a faster experience?

Does the power consumption gets better with SSD?

Could u plz help me out

you can't upgrade GPU/APU on laptops.

I have the same model laptop the curcer is on screen but I don’t to Opertor right now my display is dark

That SSD is a TLC Grade and adds 3 bits per cell, Cheapest and doesn't last as long as the MLC and adds 2 bits per cell, less room for error which you can always tell by its size for example that's a 240GB and it reserves a hidden 16GB for errors whereas the MLC SSD Will show it's a 256GB SSD with longer life and less errors and the SLC which can easily be singled out because you can't afford it... lol... The SLC Grade Comes in a much lower amount of GB's, last the longest and only adds 1 bit per cell which makes it the most accurate, but much smaller in the amount of information being stored... SD and Micro SD Cards are mainly TLC so don't have that false sense of security because there's no moving parts! Try to buy MLC, best bang for the buck...

No it is not. It is soldered.

mate, can you also upgrade that RAM?

I have one of these, had it for a couple of years. From the off it was so painfully slow that it was virtually unuseable. I'd become too invested in it to take it back and then just bought a better laptop. Upon packing to move house I stumbled once again on this piece of shit and I'm wondering if there is something I can do to at least make it capable of browsing the internet. Any ideas?

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Hi dear

"this is the hardest part"... ... Does it off screen!!!