I Wanted your kind help in solving my Laptop RAM upgrade issue...
I have a HP Pavilion dv6-3049tx Entertainment Notebook PC
Chipset: Intel HM 55
This PC has 1066 clock speed 2 X 2GB RAM by default.
Intel processor page (http://ark.intel.com/products/49022/Intel-Core-i5-450M-Processor-3M-cache-2_40-GHz?q=Intel Core i5-450M Processor) says that the processor will only support 800/1066 RAM
(Unknowing about the 800/1066 limitation) I tried to upgrade the laptop by buying a new RAM - Transcend JetRam DDR3 4 GB Laptop RAM (JM1600KSN-4G)
After inserting the new RAM, i tried the Ubuntu memory test and the test sort of hangs at about 2-3 seconds ... Infect the page corrupts by printing some odd ASCII characters all over the page.
BTW, the BIOS show that a 4GB ram is present....
When I try to boot with Windows 7(64 bit home prem) it sort of boots half way and fails giving this Blue screen of death saying IRQL not equal or lower .. and reboots..
When i try to start Ubuntu (64 bit 14.04) the same happens...
I tried to use this RAM in all combinations...
Tried to change the slots... tried to use it with the previous ram almost every thing no luck?
Can you please help me with this? Is the new RAM corrupt, is it that the chipset/processor is not able to handle the RAM or is it some different issue?
I had heard that if the RAM runs at a higher speed than the processor/chipset can support, it will downgrade itself to work at a lower speed comfortably...
Or is it some SW issue and will get solved if I reinstall the OS(s).
Thanks a lot in Advance...
I have a HP Pavilion dv6-3049tx Entertainment Notebook PC
Chipset: Intel HM 55
This PC has 1066 clock speed 2 X 2GB RAM by default.
Intel processor page (http://ark.intel.com/products/49022/Intel-Core-i5-450M-Processor-3M-cache-2_40-GHz?q=Intel Core i5-450M Processor) says that the processor will only support 800/1066 RAM
(Unknowing about the 800/1066 limitation) I tried to upgrade the laptop by buying a new RAM - Transcend JetRam DDR3 4 GB Laptop RAM (JM1600KSN-4G)
After inserting the new RAM, i tried the Ubuntu memory test and the test sort of hangs at about 2-3 seconds ... Infect the page corrupts by printing some odd ASCII characters all over the page.
BTW, the BIOS show that a 4GB ram is present....
When I try to boot with Windows 7(64 bit home prem) it sort of boots half way and fails giving this Blue screen of death saying IRQL not equal or lower .. and reboots..
When i try to start Ubuntu (64 bit 14.04) the same happens...
I tried to use this RAM in all combinations...
Tried to change the slots... tried to use it with the previous ram almost every thing no luck?
Can you please help me with this? Is the new RAM corrupt, is it that the chipset/processor is not able to handle the RAM or is it some different issue?
I had heard that if the RAM runs at a higher speed than the processor/chipset can support, it will downgrade itself to work at a lower speed comfortably...
Or is it some SW issue and will get solved if I reinstall the OS(s).
Thanks a lot in Advance...