Hi all,
I recently bought the Crucial 16GB RAM kit for my Laptop, (HP Notebook 15-ba082nr) which only came with 4GB RAM installed. I decided to upgrade because I do lots of work which requires multiple Office apps to be running at the same time for college work. I was going to get the 8 GB RAM kit but I had a bit extra money so I decided to just go with the 16 GB kit.
I made sure my laptop was capable of running on 16 GB RAM and it was, I even bought the RAM kit Crucial reccomended after I entered my laptop's info.
--> The problem is, I installed the two 8GB RAM sticks, my laptop only has two RAM slots so I know the problem can't be how they are installed, but CPU-Z reads the two RAM sticks as running in Single channel. I understand Dual is faster and is what you should have when running on two RAM sticks. My laptop reads the RAM at 16GB so I know it's there, I just do not know why it is running in Single channel, Is there any way I can fix this?
RAM specs: Crucial 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 SODIMM
CT9765667
DDR3 PC3-14900 • CL=13 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1866 • 1.35V • 1024Meg
x 64 •
upgrade for HP - Compaq HP 15-ba082nr system.
I know a mistake on my part was buying the DDR3-1866 pack, I later found out my laptop can only support up to DDR3-1600, but I read in various sites that does not influence anything, it'll just clock down to 1600.
Any answers or help are/will be gratley appreciated, thank you!
---> see images below
Resource Monitor: https://imageshack.com/a/img922/30/ESXPKq.jpg
Task Manager: https://imageshack.com/a/img923/2871/J97vAv.jpg
CPU-Z: https://imageshack.com/a/img924/5416/evhYyw.jpg
I recently bought the Crucial 16GB RAM kit for my Laptop, (HP Notebook 15-ba082nr) which only came with 4GB RAM installed. I decided to upgrade because I do lots of work which requires multiple Office apps to be running at the same time for college work. I was going to get the 8 GB RAM kit but I had a bit extra money so I decided to just go with the 16 GB kit.
I made sure my laptop was capable of running on 16 GB RAM and it was, I even bought the RAM kit Crucial reccomended after I entered my laptop's info.
--> The problem is, I installed the two 8GB RAM sticks, my laptop only has two RAM slots so I know the problem can't be how they are installed, but CPU-Z reads the two RAM sticks as running in Single channel. I understand Dual is faster and is what you should have when running on two RAM sticks. My laptop reads the RAM at 16GB so I know it's there, I just do not know why it is running in Single channel, Is there any way I can fix this?
RAM specs: Crucial 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 SODIMM
CT9765667
DDR3 PC3-14900 • CL=13 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1866 • 1.35V • 1024Meg
x 64 •
upgrade for HP - Compaq HP 15-ba082nr system.
I know a mistake on my part was buying the DDR3-1866 pack, I later found out my laptop can only support up to DDR3-1600, but I read in various sites that does not influence anything, it'll just clock down to 1600.
Any answers or help are/will be gratley appreciated, thank you!
---> see images below
Resource Monitor: https://imageshack.com/a/img922/30/ESXPKq.jpg
Task Manager: https://imageshack.com/a/img923/2871/J97vAv.jpg
CPU-Z: https://imageshack.com/a/img924/5416/evhYyw.jpg