Windows 10: Trying to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB - won't boot at 16GB

Discus and support Trying to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB - won't boot at 16GB in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Finally good news. *Smile I exchanged the Kingston RAM for G.SKILL Value Series 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Desktop Memory (F3-10600CL9S-4GBNT)... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by djbaxter, Mar 20, 2017.

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  1. DJBAXTER
    djbaxter Win User

    Trying to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB - won't boot at 16GB


    Finally good news. *Smile

    I exchanged the Kingston RAM for G.SKILL Value Series 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Desktop Memory (F3-10600CL9S-4GBNT)

    https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f3-10600cl9s-4gbnt

    Brought it home. Installed it. Rebooted. Bingo!

    The first restart seemed rather slow. Not sure if that's normal when you change all the RAM sticks but it seemed first the BIOS and then Windows itself, recognizing a changed configuration, needed to check everything else (e.g., Windows seemed to rebuild the icon cache from scratch).

    But I finally have my working desktop back with 16 GB. *Smile

    A big thank you to everyone who contributed. Among other things, I learned a lot from all of you about RAM, motherboards, BIOS upgrades, Chipsets, etc. I sincerely appreciate all of your efforts.
     
    djbaxter, Mar 23, 2017
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  2. SIMRICK
    simrick Win User

    Excellent news! Cheers! *Thumbs
     
    simrick, Mar 23, 2017
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  3. DJBAXTER
    djbaxter Win User
    To summarize, for anyone else researching with a similar problem, at the end the issue seemed to be I needed low-density double-sided RAM and my system wouldn't accept or couldn't correctly use or recognize anything else.
     
    djbaxter, Mar 23, 2017
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  4. ARAZELETERNAL
    ArazelEternal Win User

    Trying to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB - won't boot at 16GB

    Excellent. Glad it worked out.
     
    ArazelEternal, Mar 23, 2017
    #64
  5. ESSENBE
    essenbe Win User
    Excellent. I'm really glad it worked. Congratulations, well done.
     
    essenbe, Apr 5, 2018
    #65
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