So I got an HP Pavilion G6 2233-nr notebook that came with one stick of 4GB of DDR3 RAM. I found out that the laptop had two total slots, one being free, accepting up to 4GB a slot, 8GB total. So I got another stick of 4GB of RAM (and yes, it's the exact same model, they are completely identical), put it into the second slot, turned on the computer, and I noticed how much slower than it originally was. Starting it up takes much longer, all of the startup programs take considerably longer to load up, opening up a program is ridiculously slow (although after I open it up, if I close it and open it up at a later time it opens up as fast as it should). So it's like if I leave the computer on for about 10 minutes and fiddle around with it by opening programs and such, it seems to smooth out again. I haven't tried any gaming on it yet.
This is just really annoying, and what's weird about it is I even took out the second stick of RAM I put in, and even with just the original one, it's just as slow now. So it's like simply putting in the new RAM permanently slowed down the whole computer or something.
Speccy is reading it just fine, it says 8.0 GB Dual-Channel @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24). It is reading both modules as the exact same models. I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic and it found no issues. I reinstalled my WiFi and GPU drivers. I flashed the motherboard to the latest version. I swapped the RAM modules into different slots, tried one of each, etc, nothing is working. It's like the whole computer decided to get much more slow because I just put in another stick of RAM. Any ideas?
This is just really annoying, and what's weird about it is I even took out the second stick of RAM I put in, and even with just the original one, it's just as slow now. So it's like simply putting in the new RAM permanently slowed down the whole computer or something.
Speccy is reading it just fine, it says 8.0 GB Dual-Channel @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24). It is reading both modules as the exact same models. I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic and it found no issues. I reinstalled my WiFi and GPU drivers. I flashed the motherboard to the latest version. I swapped the RAM modules into different slots, tried one of each, etc, nothing is working. It's like the whole computer decided to get much more slow because I just put in another stick of RAM. Any ideas?
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