Have a 10+ year old Optiplex 980 that had a motherboard failure and decided to bite the bullet and get a new Optiplex 3000 tower. The only options available were a 256GB HD and 8GB RAM, so I figured I’d add storage and memory right out of the gate.
It has a Core i5-12500 processor, and the single stick of memory is 8GB DDR4-3200 CL22 ( Samsung M378A1G44BB0-CWE) running at 1600 MHz according to CPU-Z.
I bought 2 x 16 GB Crucial memory with the same specs (DDR4-3200 CL22 w/ heat spreader FWIW), and I can’t get it to work with either a single stick or both. When I plug it back in, I get the power button flashing 2 amber then 5 white, which I understand is due to the memory.
I haven’t found a good reason why this shouldn’t work, so I’m open to suggestions. I had some files on the old drives that I was using an adapter to copy to the new machine, and I could see that the memory usage in Task Mgr was pretty high, so I really want to do the upgrade without paying whatever usurious price Dell wants to charge for another 8GB.
Thanks!
It has a Core i5-12500 processor, and the single stick of memory is 8GB DDR4-3200 CL22 ( Samsung M378A1G44BB0-CWE) running at 1600 MHz according to CPU-Z.
I bought 2 x 16 GB Crucial memory with the same specs (DDR4-3200 CL22 w/ heat spreader FWIW), and I can’t get it to work with either a single stick or both. When I plug it back in, I get the power button flashing 2 amber then 5 white, which I understand is due to the memory.
I haven’t found a good reason why this shouldn’t work, so I’m open to suggestions. I had some files on the old drives that I was using an adapter to copy to the new machine, and I could see that the memory usage in Task Mgr was pretty high, so I really want to do the upgrade without paying whatever usurious price Dell wants to charge for another 8GB.
Thanks!
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