N5010 and 8gb sticks?

[Gillbot]

My google-fu at some point determined that my wife's 15R N5010 would take 8gb sticks for a total of 16gb. Fast forward to yesterday when they arrived and wouldn't work. 🙁 The machine boots, starts to load windows but then video goes all scrambled shortly thereafter. Dell's site says max is 8gb, anyone else used 16gb in one or is it flat out incompatible?

 

[holden j caufield]

if 16gb is detected in the bios I'd think it'd work fine.

 

[Gillbot]

You would think, but it doesn't. I can navigate the bios and everything ,but it crashed when it starts to load windows.

 

[holden j caufield]

I'd try to update the bios first but with the known stable memory only, I'd check the memory speed settings in the bios if it has those then I'd try

1) just one 8gb stick

2) one 8gb stick + one stick of what you had before (2gb? 4gb?)

this should start pointing you in the right direction. Then maybe install a fresh copy of windows on an old hard drive or find a Live CD and run knoppix or the free VMware esxi can be install on a usb drive.

Does your cpu allow for 16gb? I know my next laptop will be something that allows me to run 32gb and nested vms. I know the i5 can't do 32gb, not sure if they can do 16gb or if you have an i3 whatever limitation is on that.

 

[Gillbot]

It has the latest BIOS per the dell website and I tried one 8gb stick, same result. I'm not gonna tear the machine apart and swap drives to see if it's OS related, it's just not worth it but I never thought of trying a live disc. Good suggestion!! I also didn't manually set anything in the BIOS so i'll try that next.

 

[Tom]

according to Dell and most memory suppliers like Crucial, each slot supports 4 gb max.

 

[Gillbot]

And according to Asus the max on my P6T is 24gb: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/P6T_Deluxe/

However, 48gb is just fine....