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    Trying to upgrade ram in DV9500t to 4GB

    Discussion in 'HP' started by adboogies, Apr 16, 2008.

  1. adboogies

    adboogies Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a dv9500t.
    Just purchased a kit of 2 x 2GB pqi 800mhz memory.
    I took out the old ones and popped them in, started up and went in the bios, shows up fine there, 4096mb.
    Takes a while to startup and right before it gets to the windows startup screen I get a bue screen and then it restarts right away, I don't even have a chance to read the error message.
    I ran both HP's and the Bios memory tests and the memory comes up 100%, no problems.

    Am I doing something wrong, do I have the wrong ram?

    Here is a link to what I purchased:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141340
     
    adboogies, Apr 16, 2008
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Do you have the latest updates? SP1?

    You should have gotten PC-5300. I know people say that PC-6400 will work fine as it will downclock to 667mhz but its not always the case
     
    flipfire, Apr 16, 2008
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  3. adboogies

    adboogies Notebook Enthusiast

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    I do have SP1, the only thing I haven't updated is the BIOS to F.51, I'm always a little leery to update the bios.

    I know it won't work at 800mhz, but I read a lot of posts that said it wouldn't be a problem to downclock to 667mhz.
    There's nothing I have to do to downclock it correct?
     
    adboogies, Apr 17, 2008
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    adboogies Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just updated my bios and it now works.
     
    adboogies, Apr 17, 2008
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    awesome.. usually dv9500 and above already support 4gb as they have the updated BIOS
     
    flipfire, Apr 17, 2008
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    Make sure to test your new RAM. See the memtest guide in my sig.
     
    orev, Apr 17, 2008
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