32gb Ram Upgrade
Peppin Kishore
It is something to keep me occupied and on another thing if my 16Gb Ram currently installed on my Mac mini 2012 and as you said it yourself for Mac to be picky both my memory module are from Crucial therefore working fully and I also talk about the 1 x 2TB Samsung SSD and the other which is a x 4TB Samsung SSD both installed on the Mac mini 2012 all of what I mentioned here are not Apple products yet they all work perfectly... VMWare Fusion gives me readings of 1300Mgbs speeds when reading the Samsung SSD used as the hard drive for the virtual machines
We have two working Late 2012 Mac Mini's with upgraded SSDs and 16GB that are great machines. The one that my wife uses has a 960GB PNY SSD and the one that we use as a media and file server now has dual Crucial 1T SSDs. Over the years, both have had a verity of different HDD, SSD drive combinations and RAM configurations, but nether have ever been able to go over 16GB of RAM.
I have a Spectre X360 with 16Gb RAM. I would like to upgrade to 32Gb RAM. I have seen answers that suggest it is possible and ran a Crucial scan that said I could replace the existing 2 cards with 2 x 16Gb. I ordered the cards but when I came to fit them I found that the configuration was different to examples given on YouTube and HP's own site. There appears not to be two obvious card slots and I am not sure where the RAM is situated. Can anyone help?
Hi. Many thanks for the prompt reply. The laptop is re-assembled at the moment - I will take the cover off and have another look. But, from memory, there was a metal cover in the position indicated but it seemed square rather than rectangular. When I have had time to take another look I will let you know.
The metal cover, which I suspect hides 'onboard' RAM as it is too small to take a couple of sodimm boards. The cover is very reluctant to come off and is marked 'X38C RAM TPN-C213. So unless you have any other suggestion I guess I will have to be content with 16Gb
So why is this the case? It turns out the low end is using the same logic board of the older Late 2015 models with just an upgraded CPU which is why its RAM is limited. The newer 4K models have a very different logic board as these model use a newer CPU socket and PCH logic which is why these support the higher RAM!
Just completed the 32 gb RAM upgrade thank you for the digital assist. Your tool kit was priceless and the tips on getting the display off where critical. No real issues after that. It was fun taking apart the entire system and getting an inside. look at it. I did lose a screw that holds the hard drive mount in place so that slowed me down a bit. It had lodged itself under the mother board... so it took me a while to back track and find it. The tricky bits where: 1) replacing the hard drive SATA cable 2) replacing the power board cable. 3) replacing the lower support bracket (chin strap).
So each slice can be an app each one using one slice full of RAM, some apps can be greedy! Eating two or more slices. Even still the programer of the app may not have written it to leverage infinite RAM! This is where it may only be able to access three slices of the cake! The given app can't eat more than its belly can hold! In all cases the mix of apps can't exceed the number of slices!
So now going back to my mind model... Here we have a wedding cake! Where we have second tier of cake. So you need to first cut up the top tier (physical RAM) before you can get to the lower tier (drive). So now we can add a bit more to someones plate when they come back for a second helping! But, the given app can't eat more than its belly can hold!
So why it's all nice to have lots of physical RAM. There are limits given what you are using for Apps. Unless you are working on very large projects like music or video production or ultra large images where you knit multiple images into one giant image like I do. Or work with object modeling CAD or drawings with large number of objects or layers, you won't need 32 GB of RAM.
Some people go crazy opening up tons of tabs in Chrome or want 20 or so apps games all open at the same time! This is all wasteful! As one of the other factors is the number of pointers the OS has to deal with. fewer is better! So don't go wild as your system slows down with to many open apps/docs/tabs (all use pointers). Besides... If your system crashes you likely will have file corruption and that could be painful to clean up!
So true. Before, people took pride in building things to last. Now, it is just until it last 1 year and have them buy some new and shining once it breaks. Lots of items have build in defects to make the items break. I have several old tech that still lasts rather than new stuff that breaks.
I have a Linx Tablet which has 32GB Memory. The method I use to upgrade versions of Windows 10 is the same as Susan Bradley. Download the ISO from Microsoft Media Creation site and cut a DVD, and run setup from an external USB drive. I normally have about 10GB spare space and I have had no problems loading 18,19 and 20 versions including the latest 20H2.
Yes it not enough, I am experiencing every year on christmas. Every christmas my little present to my mom is, that I do updates for her so her 32GB chromebook is not bombarding her with error messages. Manually delete SoftwareDistribution and then do everything from the start. Disc cleanup does not remove SoftwareDistribution as a whole. It deleted 2GB of total 7GB folder size. After my intervention, aher chromebook updates with 32GB memory. Last year we purchased 64GB SD to be able to update correctly. Painfull experience.
All she does is browse email via chrome, see some photos we sent her and sje plays Wattajong (or whatever). Nothing else is needed, but lot of bloaware sneaks its way through unseen bloating Windows into 15-20GB folder.
Im not saying it does not work, but I dont have that much patience. Those machines are painful to use every day, but for some tasks why not. I have one old NTB from nostalgy, it contains only browser and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 ?
Cant see how you can realistically mount ISO and upgrade, because there are several restarts during installation. I am convinced, that after restart ISO is unmounted.. Its a shame that Windows is so vague with informing users how to technically do things and I never saw somebody mounting iso and upgrading.
Portable apps run from a USB flashdrive definitely help with this. Cleaning out the winsxs folder of superseded patches, remove uneeded features, hibernation removal, system disk clean etc prior to the upgrade can bring the footprint of a 32bit OS down to 8 to 9Gb so, the win.old folder size is dramatically reduced during the upgrade. Portable apps on W10 is the way forward on smaller storage devices (SSD being the optimal choice)
I have lenovo ideapad c340-15iml and my mother board is LNVNB161216 and it says that it only supports 16gb of ram but i want to upgrade it to 32gb.i wonder if i could upgrade it to 32gb ram because if i check the max capacity in cmd it says that i could use up to 32gb.
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So are you saying I should leave the above in place but add the 32gb dimm to G on both processors? I think I tried this but it got rejected. I should say again that I only have two 32gb dimms, so could not populate G & H on both CPUs unless I purchased more RAM or only added to one CPU.
Ah, ok, now I think I understand. Sometimes it takes a bit of time and explanation to understand the manual! I will do what you suggest, re-ordering the third channel to weight it differently and see if that helps. Unfortunately this is our main hypervisor machine so can't try until late on Friday.
When I installed 128 GB of RAM, windows 11 crashes and shuts off the PC. There is no blue or black box as the PC shuts down. I have upgraded the BIOS and the TPM is set properly. The MB is an Asrock z590 extreme, the RAM is by Corsair. No other changes were made except for the RAM. Windows 11 became corrupted and I couldn't reinstall it as the same behavior occurred.
UPDATE: I tried dropping to Windows 10 install, but it crashed the same with 128 GB RAM. I dropped down to 64 GB and installed Windows 11 as new install and has only shut the PC down once. It looks like 128 GB isn't possible with my hardware / RAM vendor.
I shut it down again (just pressing on/off button will shut it down instantly), and I turned it on again but with only 1x32GB RAM. Then the system booted and got stuck with the message "PREPARING AUTOMATIC REPAIR" forever. I do not know what to do. All messages thrown were ultra ambiguous (I googled all of them and I just found suggested adjustments that you can do inside Windows, but I am stuck not being able to enter my session).
With all sticks in I think it could be a problem with the Intel VMD drivers. Since that closely ties the NVME to the processor if it gets memory mapping incorrect it can make it appear like the hard drive is bad. Hence all the weird errors that pop up once the sticks are installed because it can't correctly map the data back to the running process.
It appears that there is a speed issue when you add an additional two Dimms. The processor, motherboard and memory begin to operate in quad channel. This means the processor can access all four sticks simultaneously. This is my theory. The processor while it's a beast can't operate as fast as is needed to handle the speed of 4 simultaneous sticks of ram at 6000mhz. It could be a board issue or a processor issue which could get fixed with an updated bios possibly. I don't think it's a memory problem because when tested in dual channel 6000mhz speeds (2 Dimms) there were no errors on either set. It only occurred when using 4 Dimms. Also, it did appear at the hardware level before even booting into windows.
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