Recent content by Split01

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    Question would a memory upgrade kill a laptop?

    Yep. Work with sensitive electronics all the time in telecom. Maybe it’s just that simple that it chose to die right then. Maybe it’s a bad expansion port. Who knows. I do appreciate the suggestions though.
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    Question would a memory upgrade kill a laptop?

    Can’t do anything with it. Got a replacement sent. Popped the new ram in and it didn’t blink. I’m going to take a shot in the dark and say that when I disconnected the battery cable it created a shock. Lesson learned of course, but thank god for the Amazon return policy.
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    Question would a memory upgrade kill a laptop?

    Additionally, about the only thing I can think of that would possibly be different is if I had two different cas latencies going. The upgrade is listed above. I am not 100% on the on board memory. Would it make a difference if it’s CAS was 22? I’m still really new to the laptop world. Only had...
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    Question would a memory upgrade kill a laptop?

    Gotcha. steps taken after shut down 1 released all the screws in the bottom cover 2 Pried the cover off with my fingernails. Very carefully 3 disconnected the battery 4 exposed the DDR4 ram slot 5 inserted the ram 6 reconnected the battery and closed the case 7 Attempted power up with no...
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    Question would a memory upgrade kill a laptop?

    Sorry. I guess I should have said that when it would t power on, I pulled the memory.
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    Question would a memory upgrade kill a laptop?

    Got a Asus Dash TUF15. Added a G.Skill ripjaw 16G DDR4 3200 CAS18-18-18-43 1.2v stick. Now it won't power on. Tried a "hard reset" with no luck. Asus states that it supports that version of DDR4 up to 32G. It currently has 8G hard fixed to the MB