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I'm trying to make my in-laws old Dell 545s a bit more usable. I added a 240gb SSD drive and did a fresh install of Windows 10. It's not terrible, but I'd like to add a couple of additional old sticks of RAM I have in a drawer.
For this 545s, it has 2x2gb sticks of RAM in banks 1 and 3 (2 and 4 are empty). I installed the extra 2x1gb sticks I had in banks 2 and 4 and it sounds like it starts up, but no display screen.
I removed the original sticks and installed the 2x1gb sticks into banks 1 and 3 and it booted fine.
I then added the 2x2gb sticks to banks 2 and 4 and it again did not get to the boot screen.
Per the online 545s manual, those should all be paired correctly (1&3 and 2&4) and the system should be able to take up to 8gb RAM so I'd think 6gb should be fine too, right?
Here's links to photos of the sticks. Thanks!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx5kS7gYP_-5TGVBU3hZWGxjTDQ
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx5kS7gYP_-5RGQzSlhOOHEtUlE
For this 545s, it has 2x2gb sticks of RAM in banks 1 and 3 (2 and 4 are empty). I installed the extra 2x1gb sticks I had in banks 2 and 4 and it sounds like it starts up, but no display screen.
I removed the original sticks and installed the 2x1gb sticks into banks 1 and 3 and it booted fine.
I then added the 2x2gb sticks to banks 2 and 4 and it again did not get to the boot screen.
Per the online 545s manual, those should all be paired correctly (1&3 and 2&4) and the system should be able to take up to 8gb RAM so I'd think 6gb should be fine too, right?
Here's links to photos of the sticks. Thanks!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx5kS7gYP_-5TGVBU3hZWGxjTDQ
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx5kS7gYP_-5RGQzSlhOOHEtUlE
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