Hey Folks,
I'm looking for some assistance with this one, because I'm at my wits end. I know that this is a football forum, but I figured that someone out there will likely know more information than I regarding laptops.
Since I'm a gamer and use my computer rather frequently, I was looking to upgrade the amount of memory in my PC.I have an Acer Aspire V3 771G-6814 model.
The motherboard on my laptop has 4 different memory slots, and I was told that the maximum that it would support would be 16 Gb.I have an Intel Core i5-3230M 2.6GHz chip, which is dual (and not quad core).
I went to NewEgg.com and purchased 4 sticks of G.Skill Ripjaws PC3L-12800 4GX2 (DDR3L-1600) 1.35V SO-DIMM to place into the machine.
After placing all 4 sticks into the different memory slots, the machine would refuse to start. The only way that the machine starts is if I use one slot on the left, and one slot on the right. The combination doesn't make a difference, but when I try and place a third stick in any slots, it will refuse to boot up.
All of the memory sticks are the same. I have no idea why this won't work. Initially I assumed that this was due to the machine only supporting sticks at 1.5V, yet it works perfectly fine with two of the sticks, which are 1.35V. I've tried all different combinations, as well as each slot independently. Each slot, when used independently with no other sticks, works just fine.
I'd REALLY rather not try and send this in to Acer, since not only is my machine barely out of warranty, but I use it for work, and couldn't be without it for a month and a half while this gets resolved.
Any ideas? Appreciate any help or guidance on this one.
Thanks.
Help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
If I need PC memory I always go there and have never ben disappointed.
You can return that existing memory back to NewEgg.
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Not sure what you are seeing when you say you see 4 slots on the motherboard.
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Acer/aspire-v3-771g-6814 - ( New Window )
Check out the bottom of this page where the cons are listed.
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I'm on Crucial.com now and on their model information it says the following:
"Your Acer Aspire V3-771G-6814
system specs as shipped
Memory:
Maximum memory: 16384MB
Slots:2 (2 banks of 1)
*Not to exceed manufacturer supported memory."
Yet I'm staring at my motherboard and there are clearly 4 slots.
I'm a little baffled.
Does that sound right? Never heard of one limiting the other.
If so, then I guess I'm stuck with 8 and it wouldn't boot because I'd be over the max.
Which seems a little stupid, especially if CRUCIAL is telling me otherwise.
Intel® Core™ i5-3230M Processor
(3M Cache, up to 3.20 GHz) rPGA
-Memory Specifications
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 32 GB
Memory Types DDR3/L/-RS 1333/1600
# of Memory Channels 2
Max Memory Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
ECC Memory Supported ‡ No
Because that says 2 memory channels, does that mean that it can only support two different "sticks" of memory at a time? Therefore, if I had two 8Gb sticks that would work?
I am not sure how experienced or comfortable you are with it, but changing out your CPU should be fairly straight forward if you wanted to bump up to the i7.
Good luck!
I'd send the memory back to Newegg, eat the restocking (which is why I've stopped ordering from them when I can) and get it elsewhere, 2x8, see if that works for you. Those other two slots are likely meant for a different configuration (same motherboard in a different laptop with different CPU) so they're non-operational in yours.