Hey guys, A few years back I bought a PCS laptop, but ran into a problem trying to upgrade RAM. I think I've figured out the issue but I want to ask away here anyway just in case its something different.
So, I bought 16gb ram (2x8gb) Corsair Vengeance for my laptop which arrived today, neither work in my laptop just a black screen when I press power on...no option to view bios, nothing.
Tried both sticks in all slots, both together and separately. Nothing.
My original 1 stick Kingston 8gb ram still works in both slots.
I try 1 stick of the new ram in another, older laptop the stick works perfectly fine. I try 1 of the sticks from that laptop in mine, nothing.
*I only went to BIOS on the older laptop, it shows the stick of ram is available IN BIOS but when trying to go through the boot up sequence, it flashes a BSOD asks me to launch start up repair, I start up that and then a permanent BSOD (Its running Windows 7, and I get these errors BAD_POOL_HEADER 0x00000019, 0x0000000000000003, 0xFFFFF8000C207840, 0X0000000000000000, 0XFFFFF8000C207840)*
I try my original stick, with 1 of the new sticks in and it works but is only showing as 8gb Ram into the PCS laptop I'm ugrading
I cleaned the slots in-case this was the issue and still nothing
I ran a memtest86 and it only showed as the Kingston stick of ram in the laptop with no errors
I ran CPU-Z and its showing Ram in both slots, but is only showing that 1 Ram slot is used. (Attached images of this)
The only real difference I can see is that the original, Kingston RAM is 1.35v whereas the Corsair Vengeance is 1.5v - is this the reason? If its not such a difference, could it be that my BIOS may need updating/any way to change what voltage is used by the RAM slots at all?
Its an older PC Specialist laptop I bought, that I just wanted to show some love adding some RAM into it. Here are the original specs, if they are of any help:
Mainboard: Clevo W65_W67RB Skylake-H Intel Chipset
BIOS - American Megatrends Inc. 1.05.08 [11/05/2015]
CPU - Intel Core i5 6300HQ Socket 1440 FCBGA Skylake 2.3ghz (boost 32ghz)
RAM - DDR3L Kingston 8GB 1600mhz PC3-12800
VGA - Nvidia Geforce 940M
Not sure if there is anything more that you would require from the system information or not.
If it is the voltage, I'm sorry I have wasted your time reading, but if it is anything else then more than happy to give whatever you suggest a try!
Thanks, folks!
So, I bought 16gb ram (2x8gb) Corsair Vengeance for my laptop which arrived today, neither work in my laptop just a black screen when I press power on...no option to view bios, nothing.
Tried both sticks in all slots, both together and separately. Nothing.
My original 1 stick Kingston 8gb ram still works in both slots.
I try 1 stick of the new ram in another, older laptop the stick works perfectly fine. I try 1 of the sticks from that laptop in mine, nothing.
*I only went to BIOS on the older laptop, it shows the stick of ram is available IN BIOS but when trying to go through the boot up sequence, it flashes a BSOD asks me to launch start up repair, I start up that and then a permanent BSOD (Its running Windows 7, and I get these errors BAD_POOL_HEADER 0x00000019, 0x0000000000000003, 0xFFFFF8000C207840, 0X0000000000000000, 0XFFFFF8000C207840)*
I try my original stick, with 1 of the new sticks in and it works but is only showing as 8gb Ram into the PCS laptop I'm ugrading
I cleaned the slots in-case this was the issue and still nothing
I ran a memtest86 and it only showed as the Kingston stick of ram in the laptop with no errors
I ran CPU-Z and its showing Ram in both slots, but is only showing that 1 Ram slot is used. (Attached images of this)
The only real difference I can see is that the original, Kingston RAM is 1.35v whereas the Corsair Vengeance is 1.5v - is this the reason? If its not such a difference, could it be that my BIOS may need updating/any way to change what voltage is used by the RAM slots at all?
Its an older PC Specialist laptop I bought, that I just wanted to show some love adding some RAM into it. Here are the original specs, if they are of any help:
Mainboard: Clevo W65_W67RB Skylake-H Intel Chipset
BIOS - American Megatrends Inc. 1.05.08 [11/05/2015]
CPU - Intel Core i5 6300HQ Socket 1440 FCBGA Skylake 2.3ghz (boost 32ghz)
RAM - DDR3L Kingston 8GB 1600mhz PC3-12800
VGA - Nvidia Geforce 940M
Not sure if there is anything more that you would require from the system information or not.
If it is the voltage, I'm sorry I have wasted your time reading, but if it is anything else then more than happy to give whatever you suggest a try!
Thanks, folks!
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