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    New Asus N56vz booting to bios after adding RAM

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by seenoland, Oct 25, 2012.

  1. seenoland

    seenoland Newbie

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    I just recieved my new N56vz. I shifted the 500gig drive to a second internal bay and added a Samsung 830 SSD as main drive, after upgrading the bios to 211 it worked well. Next I tried adding two recommended Vengeance memory modules to take it to 16 from 8. Now when it boots from start or from sleep it goes into bios menu. It sees all 16 of the RAM in both the bios and Windows but everytime I have to hit F10 to keep going. Any suggestions?
     
    seenoland, Oct 25, 2012
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  2. duhai

    duhai Notebook Consultant

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    It’s probably not precise handling of the modules by BIOS version. Remove one of the modules and try again. If you experienced the same as before then this is a confirmation of the first assumption. Also you can to reinstall the module to another slot and check again. If the problem exists then you need a new BIOS version or new modules supported by your current BIOS version.

    BTW congratulations for the lappy!

    Edit: Choose in the setup set "BIOS Default Options"
     
    duhai, Oct 26, 2012
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    Tried testing each stick seperate and that isn't the problem. I went back to the original RAM that came with the machine and same problem so RAM must not be where it is at. I put a Samsung 830 ssd as my main drive. Think it is a Windows 8 thing?
     
    seenoland, Nov 2, 2012
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    It’s not an OS related problem. When you flash the BIOS did you received some errors or message like “Unable/Unsuccessful … data/area flash”?
     
    duhai, Nov 2, 2012
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