Ram won't work with my laptop.

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dresden196

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I just got a new laptop which is a Acer with a I5-4210U and I really didnt really want to go out and buy more ram so I took the 12 GB ram from my dell laptop which has a i7-2760QM, and put it into my Acer it fit perfect without a issue. After I did that my Acer's screen would no longer come on and it would not boot at all. I decided to put the ram that came with the Acer back in and it worked fine. Is there a way to use my Dell's ram? I really don't want to go out and spend $50-70 on new ram.
 
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Yeah, not going to happen. The voltages and timings that come with your dell laptops ram are likely going to through the Haswell low voltage memory controller for a loop. You need DDR3L memory clocked at 1333/1600 mhz. Don't get ram with a higher clockspeed on your laptop since the processor is touchier than a desktop CPU.
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nikita787

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Yeah, not going to happen. The voltages and timings that come with your dell laptops ram are likely going to through the Haswell low voltage memory controller for a loop. You need DDR3L memory clocked at 1333/1600 mhz. Don't get ram with a higher clockspeed on your laptop since the processor is touchier than a desktop CPU.
 
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