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I just recently stopped working on dell laptops for warranties. It sounds like you actually have a poor slot 2 on the board(saw many boards with 1 bad ram slot on them). you could try the warranty but support may try the scapegoat of well its not "officially" supported.

yeap....shouldve removed battery plug, then press power button to power cycle clear bios

I would have thought you'd have more experience with laptops/notebooks. Dell, HP, Toshiba, and many other manufacturers do this so the non-techies have no choice but to take it to them to get fixed or upgraded, which as you probably know, is more often for low power mobile tech(they NATURALLY "feel" slow after only a year or so to most peeps). With memory, HDD's, SSD's, GPU's and many other security-centric devices they can get away with BIOS tagging(rather like Intel's Trusted Platform system), because of their higher bulk business customers(office workers etc.). Same as their desktops really too, let me tell you.....we don't call Dell "HELL" for nothing in the modding community. 😏 You have to look very deep into the data sheets and documentation of the unit's manufacturer to find the compatible hardware needed.....then deffo go somewhere else to buy the stuff at almost half the price even for new. With the memory it is a pain, as most are limited just like the old days of DDR1/DDR2 were by the motherboards and chipsets of that era. They often have to have a certain controller, only a certain count of DRAM chips, restricted to single sided, restricted to only a single row of DRAM chips.......or all restrictions. Then after all that you have to do a hard reset of the BIOS, which as you know means disconnecting the main battery and the button cell CMOS battery, and on some finding the two pads to short or tiny switch to actuate with a pin. 😑 I hated doing repairs and upgrades on nearly ALL the laptops I did.....except the older 1200 series Macbooks funnily enough......that sound sad for a PC guy doesn't it!?! 🤔😔 Most of the laptops/notebooks are REALLY not designed for "us" to upgrade.....or you mess with their system for high turnover.

Years ago when I was in the computer repair business, I was upgrading RAM in a laptop with the battery still installed, when the RAM suddenly started getting extremely hot. Turns out, something caused the computer to turn on and the poor connection of the SODIMM, or just the fact that it was powered, caused it to heat up. Fortunately no hardware failure from this.

Gggggggg

Newer razer blades have upgradeable RAM.

@@charleswolfman i just fixed a razer blade, what a crap batterypack is in there it broke the laptop by expanding. and the build quality is bad in my opinion.

@@Mcorpmike razer i guess

mike corn Razer build quality is supposedly really good? Not quite Apple, but still good.

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Idk, I upgraded my dell g5 a couple of months ago from 8 to 32 gb of ram (I used Crucial ram) and it worked just fine

@@jordanabendroth5568 I did the same in my G3. Motherboard manufacturers post lists of compatible RAM for a reason. If you blindly choose one and it works, great. If you blindly choose one and it doesn't, it's not Dell's fault. Take some responsibility.

Dell probably runs whitelist still, they have for at least a decade. It's no surprise that the Delran module probably has a flag that allows the laptop to boot, and is required in dimm Slot 2.

I think he was waking it up from sleep to turn it off.

You can do it to some extend. Little moves are fine

Thank you!

+Unfocused Racing what lenovo laptop did you have?

^^^ Exactly this! It's also the only way to get 'non-Apple' RAM to boot in older MacBook Pros; can't recommend Thaiphoo Burner enough in these situations. Just need to do one Teamgroup stick at a time (with a stock Dell stick in slot 2 to boot). Annoying task, but well worth it in the end.

Indeed. I've modded unbrand 1333 d3 8g dimms to 1066 before for my MacBook 2010 mid. Also noted that there're mem modules which has spd write protection that cannot be modded.

That's not an option since RAM SMBus addresses are locked for writing on XPS laptops. Wasted several hours today on this one I am considering to use external I2C programmer for the next attempt

@@qewrtyio Bought a Crucial Ballistix BL2K32G32C16S4B 3200Mhz (the 2 x 32GB kit) for my HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk1056wm (2933Mhz max) and thought the RAM would be downclocked to 2933Mhz but it went all the way down to 2666Mhz, even though Crucial's scanner didn't mention that issue. Do you think using Thaiphoo Burner would be a good idea ? I'm a little afraid of breaking something 😅

@@qewrtyio Could you do something? For my dell 7567 i bought 2x16gb ram teamgroup and I have the same issue. I can't solve this problem u_u

HP laptops don't play well with RAMs of different speeds.

i am too i hate the dead display dots and screen burnin on the y700 series they said more than three dots on the screen then they will RMA it company policy bullshit i got myself a 1080p panel on ali express and ama happy bunny

@@tanmaypanadi1414 Luckily mine doesn't have any dead pixels, and with a SSD upgrade I did when I upgraded the RAM a year and a half ago, it still runs great. But new games are coming out all the time and eventually this one just won't be able to run them. Do you have the touchscreen version? I wasn't aware of that version when I got mine, though I think I'm glad for that now.

Crucial = Micron, same as what came with the machine.

If you is on a dell laptop, press the turn on button and start spamming the f2 key

I'd personally either lightly hand file a grove in the head so you could get a commons in there or if you are good with a soldering iron tack the head of the screw to a bit of wire or a screwdriver head with some solder

@@chocarter5634 Thank you. I'll take that into consideration. I want to adress it with a delicate method, since I don't want to break it.

Yeah I was on 1.0.0 in the beginning. I updated later during troubleshooting. Still nada.

That would mean the BIOS LED codes are wrong. Memory training only lasts a few seconds to a few minutes. I left this laptop alone for over an hour and it never booted. So no, I don't think that's the issue.

I discussed this later in the video. None that work thus far.

@@GregSalazar My bad, must have missed that. Still, this a very weird problem. Have you reached out to Dell for input? Normally their system are very easy to upgrade, I rave about them and love working on them for that reason.

But he did do his research. The only research he did after was looking into the error code.

@@cee128d i actually never knew about this. Had only one Dell laptop in my entire and never tried swapping out RAM. Now i know what to expect when i encounter another Dell laptop

@@RackaApps Basically just look up Name of laptop+compatible ram. There is however, a reason why lots of sites have ram compatibility checkers because even on PC motherboards not all ram is compatible, this is worse on laptops. Admittedly Dell is definitely one of the worst for this, however, they are far from the only manufacturer who doesn't allow you to just use anything.

Nope. Dual channel is only enabled with identical memory sizes, speed and latencies. Mix and match memory card sizes always stays in single channel.