Dell Optiplex 3040 power light blinking orange after installing a new ram module

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
A

aaquibahm

Prominent
Feb 13, 2018
2
0
510
I have a dell optiplex 3040 micro desktop, with 4 gb of ram. I decided to upgrade the ram to 8 gb. To do this I took a ram module from my laptop, an go probook 4440s, and inserted it into my pc. Now when I power my pc on, the power light blinks orange and the pc doesn’t turn on. Any fixes?

EDIT: It works after I remove the ram I installed, but why doesn’t it work with the ram?
 
Solution
F


All RAM must be matching with original. Cannot mix 2 types together.

After installing all matching ram:
Unplug inter net..turn off fire wall and turn off all security.
Put the windows disk the the drive, select: "upgrade."
This will re-configure the system to work with the new RAM. But it will not erase programs or files.
Re-start, turn fire wall back on...
Sort by date Sort by votes
F

friedlander.m.s

Honorable
Feb 16, 2018
77
0
10,710


All RAM must be matching with original. Cannot mix 2 types together.

After installing all matching ram:
Unplug inter net..turn off fire wall and turn off all security.
Put the windows disk the the drive, select: "upgrade."
This will re-configure the system to work with the new RAM. But it will not erase programs or files.
Re-start, turn fire wall back on.
The RAM is configured for the system by the loading of the OS.
BUT all RAM must be matching.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom