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RAM in asa 5505

Benjamin Saito
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Do 5505's and 5510's use the same type of RAM. What I am wondering is can I take a 1 gb stick out of a 5510 and use it in a 5505? Thanks in advance.

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julomban
Level 3
Level 3

Hello Benjamin,

The ASA5505 supports all up to 512 MB so you cannot use the 1 GB memory on your ASA5505.

Below you can see the table:

Regards,

Juan Lombana

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Perhaps you should add that 512M is just the supported amount of RAM for the 5505. But if the 1Gig-Module is compatible, then the 5505 will function with that. There are many succsess-stories blogged about using 1Gig-Modules. But probably you won't get any more benefit from 1Gig compared to 512Meg.

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Hey there...

I thought that it didn't work.... but after all... it works... check this out:

http://tekcert.com/blog/2012/03/29/forced-memory-upgrade-cisco-asa-5505

CISCO SYSTEMS 
Embedded BIOS Version 1.0(12)11 04/30/08 15:45:41.19

Low Memory: 632 KB
High Memory: 1019 MB
PCI Device Table.
Bus Dev Func VendID DevID Class              Irq
 00  01  00   1022   2080  Host Bridge        
 00  01  02   1022   2082  Chipset En/Decrypt 11
 00  0C  00   1148   4320  Ethernet           11
 00  0D  00   177D   0003  Network En/Decrypt 10
 00  0F  00   1022   2090  ISA Bridge         
 00  0F  02   1022   2092  IDE Controller     
 00  0F  03   1022   2093  Audio              10
 00  0F  04   1022   2094  Serial Bus         9
 00  0F  05   1022   2095  Serial Bus         9

Evaluating BIOS Options ...
Launch BIOS Extension to setup ROMMON

Cisco Systems ROMMON Version (1.0(12)11) #4: Thu May  1 14:50:05 PDT 2008

Platform ASA5505

http://tekcert.com/sites/default/files/images/ASDM.png

After all, it all depends to the specs of the memory DIMM that you use. but it works.

Have a good day.

--Armando Rojas

harvisin
Level 3
Level 3

Hello,

I went through your query and found,they both do not have the same RAM, and you cannot use 1GB of 5510  into 5505 as per cisco ,but still if you want to give it a try. You can  go ahead  it might work.

It works in mine:

 

ciscoasa# sh ver

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.2(5)
Device Manager Version 6.2(3)

Compiled on Fri 20-May-11 16:00 by builders
System image file is "disk0:/asa825-k8.bin"
Config file at boot was "startup-config"

ciscoasa up 1 min 9 secs

Hardware: ASA5505, 1024 MB RAM, CPU Geode 500 MHz
Internal ATA Compact Flash, 128MB
BIOS Flash M50FW080 @ 0xffe00000, 1024KB

Encryption hardware device : Cisco ASA-5505 on-board accelerator (revision 0x0)
Boot microcode : CN1000-MC-BOOT-2.00
SSL/IKE microcode: CNLite-MC-SSLm-PLUS-2.03
IPSec microcode : CNlite-MC-IPSECm-MAIN-2.05

 

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