Hello,
I decided to refresh my 2011 Lenovo B560 by first upgrading its RAM. (The laptop itself is in a very good condition, it has served mostly as a display and shows very little mechanical wear, stable working conditions FWIW.)
It has 2x2GB:
Micron Technology 8JSF25664HZ-1G4D1 2GB, 1333MHz (the default one)
Kingston 99U5428-010.A01LF 2 GB DDR3-1066 DDR3 SDRAM (7-7-7-20 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-18 @ 457 MHz) (5-5-5-15 @ 380 MHz) (added sometime later)
I attempted to put in 2 Kingston modules: 2x KCP313SS8/4 4GB DDR3 1333MT/s Non ECC SODIMM and the laptop barely boots.
I was able to enter BIOS and see that the motherboard recognized those 8192MB of RAM, but the laptop would reboot quickly after.
Mixing either new module with the 2GB ones resulted either in a freeze quickly somewhere around the Mint bootloader, a spectacular colorful screen followed by a reboot, or even a freeze in BIOS.
Running Linux Mint from a pendrive also did not suceed past the boot mode selection screen, I was not even able to run memtest, because it would reboot the laptop after a second or two.
I can not understand how the laptop could have worked with the @1333MHz default module yet it could not handle two identical brand new Kingston ones.
I did not try the new 4GB modules alone because this would not meet my goal in the first place.
The motherboard is Lenovo MoutCook and the chipset is Intel HM55 (IbexPeak-M DH). BIOS number 39CN16WW . As far as I searched for a BIOS update, there is none.
What may I be missing here?
I am still searching for some relevant modules, and an wondering if a kit consisting of 2x Corsair CMSA4GX3M1A1066C7 would be appropriate.
Thank you in advance for your time.
I decided to refresh my 2011 Lenovo B560 by first upgrading its RAM. (The laptop itself is in a very good condition, it has served mostly as a display and shows very little mechanical wear, stable working conditions FWIW.)
It has 2x2GB:
Micron Technology 8JSF25664HZ-1G4D1 2GB, 1333MHz (the default one)
Kingston 99U5428-010.A01LF 2 GB DDR3-1066 DDR3 SDRAM (7-7-7-20 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-18 @ 457 MHz) (5-5-5-15 @ 380 MHz) (added sometime later)
I attempted to put in 2 Kingston modules: 2x KCP313SS8/4 4GB DDR3 1333MT/s Non ECC SODIMM and the laptop barely boots.
I was able to enter BIOS and see that the motherboard recognized those 8192MB of RAM, but the laptop would reboot quickly after.
Mixing either new module with the 2GB ones resulted either in a freeze quickly somewhere around the Mint bootloader, a spectacular colorful screen followed by a reboot, or even a freeze in BIOS.
Running Linux Mint from a pendrive also did not suceed past the boot mode selection screen, I was not even able to run memtest, because it would reboot the laptop after a second or two.
I can not understand how the laptop could have worked with the @1333MHz default module yet it could not handle two identical brand new Kingston ones.
I did not try the new 4GB modules alone because this would not meet my goal in the first place.
The motherboard is Lenovo MoutCook and the chipset is Intel HM55 (IbexPeak-M DH). BIOS number 39CN16WW . As far as I searched for a BIOS update, there is none.
What may I be missing here?
I am still searching for some relevant modules, and an wondering if a kit consisting of 2x Corsair CMSA4GX3M1A1066C7 would be appropriate.
Thank you in advance for your time.