So I have a HP ProBook 4540s and according to Crucial.com's advisory tool my RAM should be DDR3 1600Mhz, CL 11, 1.35V and max supported memory is 16GB. - http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/HP-Compaq/probook-4540s
I'm limited in my choices due to the region I'm from but this seems to match the specs:
http://www.kingston.com/us/memory/search/?partid=kvr16s11/8Dell%2017R%20SE%207720
However my laptop is not in the compatible systems list, but as the specs are the same, would it work?
Also the ProBook 4540s also has this issue with the BIOS or whatever and HP has changed their specs to saying the 4540s only supports 8GB total now, but the HP forum seems to have found a work around:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Lockups-Freezes-Hangs/Performance-degrades-in-Probook-4540s-after-memory-upgrade/td-p/2268503/page/4
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/Performance-issues-with-ProBook-4540s-with-16GB-RAM/td-p/5055152
I'm hoping to upgrade to 16GB later on but for now I'm going to test it out with 12GB(4GB+8GB). I know the only way to know for sure is try it out, but no where around here has a good return policy and the price here is kind of high unfortunately.
I'm limited in my choices due to the region I'm from but this seems to match the specs:
http://www.kingston.com/us/memory/search/?partid=kvr16s11/8Dell%2017R%20SE%207720
However my laptop is not in the compatible systems list, but as the specs are the same, would it work?
Also the ProBook 4540s also has this issue with the BIOS or whatever and HP has changed their specs to saying the 4540s only supports 8GB total now, but the HP forum seems to have found a work around:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Lockups-Freezes-Hangs/Performance-degrades-in-Probook-4540s-after-memory-upgrade/td-p/2268503/page/4
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/Performance-issues-with-ProBook-4540s-with-16GB-RAM/td-p/5055152
I'm hoping to upgrade to 16GB later on but for now I'm going to test it out with 12GB(4GB+8GB). I know the only way to know for sure is try it out, but no where around here has a good return policy and the price here is kind of high unfortunately.