The Ryzen 3's integrated GPU is using those 2GB or RAM for video memory. That's why you're seeing a bit less "usable" RAM. You're using it all, just for different functions.
@@aaronha998 The Ryzen 3000 series APU/CPUs shouldn't have any incompatibility issue with 16gb of ram especially if it's from a well known brand like Crucial. Only 1000 and some 2000 series APU/CPUs had those issues. Either you have a dead SO-DIMM slot or you need to troubleshoot it thru the bios. Put it should work if placed correctly without needing to do anything special.
@@aaronha998 As long as you use RAM that is 260 PIN, which is the only kind that will fit. Do not use 288 PIN, they are longer and will not fit. Yes 2 x 16gb RAM will work for this laptop. However, the APU in this laptop will not be able to leverage all that RAM in games or productivity, even 16 gb is a bit much because the laptop will get pinned at 100% long before it can use even allocate 16 gb of ram let alone 32 gb.
Thanks for the video! FYI I just added an 8GB stick into the extra RAM slot and left the 4GB one that the laptop shipped with and it's running fine. Shows 12GB in my system info view. I saw a comment on the Acer support forum saying it should work so that's why I tried it. Give it a shot!
The only problem with that is your going to have a significant decrease in memory speed. You would probably be better off just running the single 8 gig stick or buy another so it will run in dual channel.
@@TheDakota37073 Oh interesting. I haven't noticed any problems with speed thus far. The memory speed in the task manager shows as 2667 MHz. If I do notice any problems with performance I'll just get another 8GB stick. Thanks!
@@MrOctoberhungry1 you may not notice it in day to day tasks, but if you do any type of actual work, editing rendering, or even light gaming, you'll notice. Run stress tests and bench marks to confirm and compare test with 12 gig and 8 gig. Yes it will work, but it will hinder your speeds. Whatever works for you is fine though bud, I'm just glad people still have the balls to work on their own machine.
I just want to thank you sir!! Really! I’m not extremely knowledgeable on laptops and installation so I turned to your video when I wanted to double my RAM in my aspire. I bought the same exact one that was already in it and used your video as a walkthrough and I commend you! You did a fantastic job! Couldn’t have done it without you my friend
The reason you only seeing 5.94gb memory is because this laptop uses an APU (CPU+GPU together), and its reserving 2gb out of the 8gb for the graphics card of the APU, you might be able to assign the amount on the bios. This is one of the reasons that i would suggest to get another 8gb to end up with 16gb, to me 8gb is the bare minimum to run windows 10 today, and if you are a chrome user or even a multi tasker 8gb is way bordland of being short, 16gb would be a lot better, specially thinking that the apu reserves memory for the graphics card.
It’s because part of the memory is allocated to the integrated GPU. The max memory size that is allowed for this GPU is 2GB. Conveniently the size that you’re missing. Edit: O you found out yourself!
Hello everyone !, Just to let you know duel channel has much much more value then single channel ram (2-sticks insted of just 1) and wierdly enough this model supports 32gb of ram as mentioned on the site . !
I know my videos are good with the exception of some of my latest ones (they were sloppy) but I don’t upload consistently. I would say that’s the main reason I don’t have that many subs. Thanks for watching!
Could I buy it on Amazon? I want 16Gb but I don't know the right one to buy. I found this one on Amazon but Idk if it's the right one Crucial RAM 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR4 2666 MHz CL19 Laptop Memory CT2K8G4SFRA266
Great video... the reason that you don’t have the whole 8 gigs is very similar to the reason that you won’t have the whole 500 gigs of a 500gb hard drive... on a hard drive some of the memory is dedicated to important system data to make the computer or laptop run, in a similar way some of the ram is solely dedicated to you’re graphics card to help it run and make things smoother, without that dedicated memory for your GC (graphics card) your computer or laptop would either not run at all or you would have a lot of skipping on the screen for even the simplest of tasks like typing a Word doc for example. Also if you’d like for an even better performance, the more ram the better the performance, that specific model of laptop can go up to 32 gigs of ram with either a single 32 gig ram slot or a duel slot of 2 16gb ram sticks.
Why you not use the other space of the ram memory ? (I don't talk English, but i can understand if you read in English) thanks, greetings from Paraguay
Thanks man. I'm buying this very laptop and I want to purchase the upgrades together with it. and can you do an ssd or hard disk upgrade? Will subscribe
Thank you for the tutorial and like an idiot, I put it all back together and realized I had forgot to plug the battery back in. It came apart much quicker the 2nd time! 🤣🤣
I'm just scared that I'm going to break one of the pins on the ram our battery because I'm waiting until Black Friday to get the laptop and the 4 bg ram for my birthday.
I've read that disconnecting the battery when you only use AC power will save the battery and keep it fresh if you ever do want to use battery. That's not true?
Did u ever find out if this is indeed true? I am about to open my new unit to upgrade the additional RAM & SSD... would not mind leaving the battery disconnected & only use it with the provided power adapter 🙂
You made a good video, thanks. I wish you well with the channel. as I type you have 63 subscribers. I will make it 64. PS: I think your laptop will love you more if you put a cloth down to prevent scratches on the lid when it is upside down for removing the back. :)
Can someone tell me if i put a 16 gb ram in my acer AMD, will it make it unstable?? cuz of the system wont be able to handle that? or is it all in the ram? to handle the system??
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that getting mismatched ram sizes forces the higher capacity of ram to drop down to the other as equals (e.g pairing 8GB and 4GB ram sizes makes the 8GB stick drop down to 4GB).
Hey do you know if we sata III disk we can put right there is a 7mm one or a 9.5mm one ? And do you know the latency of the samsung original RAM stick ?
@@johanalexanderrosariolopez911 I figured out for the first one because of an official acer video on how to add a new disk on these models, and they tell us that it only support 7mm one
Samsung 4GB DDR4 PC4-21300, 2666MHZ, 260 PIN SODIMM, 1.2V, CL 19 Laptop ram Memory Module is type of RAM being used click and paste on Amazon or wherever and you can look up it's specs. CAS latency is 19 from the looks of it. It's not going to matter much with such a budget machine my man. The whole laptop is budget AF, which is okay with me, but let's not get pretend that it's a ASUS ROG Zephyrus S with a RTX2080ti, 240hz IPS panel calibrated to a 0.5 ms respond rate with anti-lag software to really being worrying about CAS latency. That CL 11 RAM you might find will set you back 150USD for 16gb or 130 USD for 8gb in dual channel for a laptop that was 300 bucks, dunno if that's a good idea. HDD/SSD bay is 7mm only. The responds rate is 30ms on mine which I had find out myself, because on nowhere did they mention it, 30 ms isn't worth mentioning. I overclocked the screen to a refresh rate of 75 hz as well . Respond rate was the same no matter the refresh rate of the monitor was set.
@@namenotfound8747 Hey thanks ! I had guessed that it won't make much of a difference, but I'm thinking about adding only one stick of 8gb, and the crucial one is CL19 so I wanted to know if the OG one is also CL19 for compatibility reasons, now I know, thank you.
@@trixniisama yes it is CL 19. Shouldn't be an issue although ram speed might fall to default 2133mhz since it's 8+ 4 or it might not change and say 2666mhz but under perform only way to tell is to test it, but i doubt you have an extra 4 gb stick to compare. By under performing i mean like 3%less compared to 2 sticks of 4 or 8. Although sometimes thier is no loss or less then 1% to make a difference. Laptops are like that because every model has a custom solution. Do it anyways. Won't matter in real life usage. Just make sure you use ram that uses 1.2 volts. Don't ever mess with voltage in a laptop by using ram that use 1.35 v, it might work or it might not end well.
13.9 of RAM is usable atm, 2.0 RAM is being used for my GPU or integrated graphics card. As for performance, everything in general is a bit quicker and my Minecraft game runs silky smooth now, before it was choppy with the FPS (Frames Per Second)
@@GRREZ Oh I see you figured out the GPU/RAM thing already. Well, I tried to help anyway :) but glad you realized it. It's nice little config, isn't it?
@@GRREZ Choppy with 8GB compared to 16GB? I know 4GB is a struggle, but I thought 8GB would be enough. FWIW the render distance in the minecraft bedrock edition is drastically different than Java, since Java is visual and ticking (or simulation) distance whereas bedrock is visual only.
Can anyone assist me? I installed an 8gb ram stick from A-tech components, and my keyboard will light up and it shows that my computer is turned on but the screen is black.
So my computer was just delivered. Nice screen, solid build but when having a couple tabs open in Chrome, the fan keeps coming on. Would adding an additional 8gb of RAM fix this? I need to use chrome for work so either I fix this or it has to go back. Thanks
I did it as a safety precaution, also when I was searching on how to do it I came across this video from Acer themselves that recommended it th-cam.com/video/XiadRhJ70Rs/w-d-xo.html
@@ahmvd_dbgh If you haven't upgraded your ram yet i would really recommend that you go with 4x2 or 8x2 since dual channel boosts the performance by a lot.
The same thing happened to me, I'm looking around and trying to figure out different ways to fix it. But for now, I just reinstalled my old ram. I'll let you know when I fix it, maybe it'll help you out too.
Can someone please help me. I just got my ram and did everything that the video suggested I do, before and after. But my screen goes dark after turning it on. So I tried other methods to get rid of the dark screen but to no avail. So I reinstalled my old ram and my computer started working perfectly fine like nothing happened. I double-checked the ram to see if I bought the wrong one but I checked on crucial again and everything seems in line. So far nothing I tried has worked, please Help! Oh! And this was the part I got, A-Tech 16GB RAM Kit for Acer Aspire 5 (A515-43-R19L) Slim Laptop - (2 x 8GB) DDR4 2666MHz PC4-21300 SODIMM Memory Upgrade Modules
I’d say your good with 8GB for browsing, videos and basic games. Pretty much if you don’t have to run any heavy programs this is good enough. If you have to have many programs opened at the same time that consume a lot of RAM (premiere pro, AutoCAD, etc.) I recommend 16GB. Finally, since I have 16 already installed on this computer the performance is amazing.
@@ercushkakulmetov7458 yes. if u get dual channel RAM. 12GB will give you 10 GB system ram and 2 GB gpu memory. should be good enough for the tasks this chip is designed for.
Damn! I’m having the same problem. I added a 4GB stick for a total of 8GB but my system is showing only 6GB as usable. I watched to see if you had an answer for me but I guess you are just as clueless as I am.
I did some research and apparently the GPU doesn’t use its own RAM. So, it’ll feed off of your systems RAM and in my case when I press the Windows Key + G under the GPU tab it says 2.0 GB of RAM. There is probably a way to configure that but as of now I’m not sure how.
DivineSage115 That makes sense because I’m not running Windows 10, I’m running Linux Mint and it shows only 6GB available. Another observation I made was that I believe I installed 2400 RAM instead of the 2666 that it comes with. Somewhere I read that when you put a slower RAM with a quicker one the system clocks down to the slower one. Let’s not give up hope LMK if you find out anything else I’ll do the same.
@@prodeq12 yeah thats true, the system clocks down to the slower one, i'm gonna buy this laptop and i'm so excited.oh and put a SSD is better and the laptop has the slot.
The Ryzen 3's integrated GPU is using those 2GB or RAM for video memory. That's why you're seeing a bit less "usable" RAM. You're using it all, just for different functions.
Yes but if you put incorrectly 16gb of ram keep seeing 6.25 ram in use only thats by the processor ryzen 3 is incompatible with somes ram
@@aaronha998 The Ryzen 3000 series APU/CPUs shouldn't have any incompatibility issue with 16gb of ram especially if it's from a well known brand like Crucial. Only 1000 and some 2000 series APU/CPUs had those issues. Either you have a dead SO-DIMM slot or you need to troubleshoot it thru the bios. Put it should work if placed correctly without needing to do anything special.
@@namenotfound8747 in this exact model forom acer, would 2 16gb ram cards work in the laptop to get 32gb ram total?
@@aaronha998 As long as you use RAM that is 260 PIN, which is the only kind that will fit. Do not use 288 PIN, they are longer and will not fit. Yes 2 x 16gb RAM will work for this laptop. However, the APU in this laptop will not be able to leverage all that RAM in games or productivity, even 16 gb is a bit much because the laptop will get pinned at 100% long before it can use even allocate 16 gb of ram let alone 32 gb.
Oh thank yoi
Thanks for the video! FYI I just added an 8GB stick into the extra RAM slot and left the 4GB one that the laptop shipped with and it's running fine. Shows 12GB in my system info view. I saw a comment on the Acer support forum saying it should work so that's why I tried it. Give it a shot!
Mine comes tomorrow and I was conflicted about trying this. Thanks for the only confirmation I've come across!
I ordered another 8GB of RAM already but that’s good to know though, thanks.
The only problem with that is your going to have a significant decrease in memory speed. You would probably be better off just running the single 8 gig stick or buy another so it will run in dual channel.
@@TheDakota37073 Oh interesting. I haven't noticed any problems with speed thus far. The memory speed in the task manager shows as 2667 MHz. If I do notice any problems with performance I'll just get another 8GB stick. Thanks!
@@MrOctoberhungry1 you may not notice it in day to day tasks, but if you do any type of actual work, editing rendering, or even light gaming, you'll notice. Run stress tests and bench marks to confirm and compare test with 12 gig and 8 gig. Yes it will work, but it will hinder your speeds. Whatever works for you is fine though bud, I'm just glad people still have the balls to work on their own machine.
I just want to thank you sir!! Really! I’m not extremely knowledgeable on laptops and installation so I turned to your video when I wanted to double my RAM in my aspire. I bought the same exact one that was already in it and used your video as a walkthrough and I commend you! You did a fantastic job! Couldn’t have done it without you my friend
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Good info: remember to move the light so that your hands do not shadow the part/action your are describing.
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Really helpful video. Installed RAM painlessly with your guidance. Thanks.
The reason you only seeing 5.94gb memory is because this laptop uses an APU (CPU+GPU together), and its reserving 2gb out of the 8gb for the graphics card of the APU, you might be able to assign the amount on the bios. This is one of the reasons that i would suggest to get another 8gb to end up with 16gb, to me 8gb is the bare minimum to run windows 10 today, and if you are a chrome user or even a multi tasker 8gb is way bordland of being short, 16gb would be a lot better, specially thinking that the apu reserves memory for the graphics card.
@RS1 I don't believe that. Unless the RAM speeds were different
Hi! Can you make a video by installing an ssd disk to the laptop?
An SSD isn't a disk. It's a chip.
It’s because part of the memory is allocated to the integrated GPU. The max memory size that is allowed for this GPU is 2GB. Conveniently the size that you’re missing.
Edit: O you found out yourself!
Yeah, but thanks though
Bro but I hace 12gb of ram and I can see only 6 in use, Ddr4 2400 sodimm hyperx+ stock 4gb sodimm Ddr4 2666
Hello everyone !,
Just to let you know duel channel has much much more value then single channel ram (2-sticks insted of just 1) and wierdly enough this model supports 32gb of ram as mentioned on the site . !
Great review. Thanks!
hi dude i would like to see a video upgrading your SSD on this laptop?
How do you only have 312 subs? You make amazing tutorials
I know my videos are good with the exception of some of my latest ones (they were sloppy) but I don’t upload consistently. I would say that’s the main reason I don’t have that many subs. Thanks for watching!
@4:25---Good reminder to disconnect the battery!
@6:38---Also useful reminder to reconnect the battery!
Could I buy it on Amazon? I want 16Gb but I don't know the right one to buy. I found this one on Amazon but Idk if it's the right one
Crucial RAM 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR4 2666 MHz CL19 Laptop Memory CT2K8G4SFRA266
Great video... the reason that you don’t have the whole 8 gigs is very similar to the reason that you won’t have the whole 500 gigs of a 500gb hard drive... on a hard drive some of the memory is dedicated to important system data to make the computer or laptop run, in a similar way some of the ram is solely dedicated to you’re graphics card to help it run and make things smoother, without that dedicated memory for your GC (graphics card) your computer or laptop would either not run at all or you would have a lot of skipping on the screen for even the simplest of tasks like typing a Word doc for example. Also if you’d like for an even better performance, the more ram the better the performance, that specific model of laptop can go up to 32 gigs of ram with either a single 32 gig ram slot or a duel slot of 2 16gb ram sticks.
@ DivineSage, did you get to install the additional 8GB of RAM? As per the Acer website, the laptop can support up to 32 gigs of RAM
Yeah, I got around to it, I posted a pic on my instagram instagram.com/gus_divine115/
(It's also in the bio/description)
get me the link where say this please
Great job. Thank you!
Why you not use the other space of the ram memory ? (I don't talk English, but i can understand if you read in English) thanks, greetings from Paraguay
Thanks man. I'm buying this very laptop and I want to purchase the upgrades together with it. and can you do an ssd or hard disk upgrade? Will subscribe
Thank you for the tutorial and like an idiot, I put it all back together and realized I had forgot to plug the battery back in. It came apart much quicker the 2nd time! 🤣🤣
The Diabetic Drummer Yes sir
excellent video
I'm just scared that I'm going to break one of the pins on the ram our battery because I'm waiting until Black Friday to get the laptop and the 4 bg ram for my birthday.
Interesting to know that if install two sticks of ram they have to be the same size thank you for that
They can be different like one 4 and one 8 but it’ll be less efficient. Two of the same sizes would be taking full advantage of dual channel speeds.
That music sounds like music I heard at a Rub N Tug
Thanks for the video....but why the music??
🤷♂️
I've read that disconnecting the battery when you only use AC power will save the battery and keep it fresh if you ever do want to use battery. That's not true?
Did u ever find out if this is indeed true?
I am about to open my new unit to upgrade the additional RAM & SSD... would not mind leaving the battery disconnected & only use it with the provided power adapter 🙂
8:30 it's because the graphics card share it's memory with ram
@Divinesage115.. Dude, you literally saved me a lot of money, thanks for the video. I'm your 4th subscriber
no problem, thanks
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I have hp 255 g7 with ryzen 3200u and 4gb ram working in single chanel. Can i upgrade it to 16gb?
This laptop must be selling good, they raised the price from $319.00 to $399.00! lol
Do you think you can do a sort of in-depth review of this laptop?
There aren't any on TH-cam, and I'm really wanting to buy this laptop.
I’m working on one at the moment, I should have it uploaded before this weekend.
@@GRREZ awesome! I'll keep an eye out.
I was looking to get the i5 version, but an overall review of this version will do well too
Can i just leave the ram on it and add another brand(crucial a515-43-r19l)?
You made a good video, thanks. I wish you well with the channel. as I type you have 63 subscribers. I will make it 64.
PS: I think your laptop will love you more if you put a cloth down to prevent scratches on the lid when it is upside down for removing the back. :)
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Does the 1rx16 or 1rx8 matter in upgrading the ram?
Can someone tell me if i put a 16 gb ram in my acer AMD, will it make it unstable?? cuz of the system wont be able to handle that? or is it all in the ram? to handle the system??
is that enough to edit videos with 16GB, 128 SSD ????
It is enough, but i would recommend increase the storage
Mismatched capacity of ram sticks has nothing to do with anything lul They sell laptops with 4GB soldered to the board and 8GB in a slot...
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that getting mismatched ram sizes forces the higher capacity of ram to drop down to the other as equals (e.g pairing 8GB and 4GB ram sizes makes the 8GB stick drop down to 4GB).
@@bananaminionz lul what are you talking about you match speeds only size does not matter
@@nufrequency84 Clueless
First
Hey do you know if we sata III disk we can put right there is a 7mm one or a 9.5mm one ?
And do you know the latency of the samsung original RAM stick ?
you can just put the 7mm one and the other question¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@johanalexanderrosariolopez911 I figured out for the first one because of an official acer video on how to add a new disk on these models, and they tell us that it only support 7mm one
Samsung 4GB DDR4 PC4-21300, 2666MHZ, 260 PIN SODIMM, 1.2V, CL 19 Laptop ram Memory Module is type of RAM being used click and paste on Amazon or wherever and you can look up it's specs. CAS latency is 19 from the looks of it. It's not going to matter much with such a budget machine my man. The whole laptop is budget AF, which is okay with me, but let's not get pretend that it's a ASUS ROG Zephyrus S with a RTX2080ti, 240hz IPS panel calibrated to a 0.5 ms respond rate with anti-lag software to really being worrying about CAS latency. That CL 11 RAM you might find will set you back 150USD for 16gb or 130 USD for 8gb in dual channel for a laptop that was 300 bucks, dunno if that's a good idea. HDD/SSD bay is 7mm only. The responds rate is 30ms on mine which I had find out myself, because on nowhere did they mention it, 30 ms isn't worth mentioning. I overclocked the screen to a refresh rate of 75 hz as well . Respond rate was the same no matter the refresh rate of the monitor was set.
@@namenotfound8747 Hey thanks ! I had guessed that it won't make much of a difference, but I'm thinking about adding only one stick of 8gb, and the crucial one is CL19 so I wanted to know if the OG one is also CL19 for compatibility reasons, now I know, thank you.
@@trixniisama yes it is CL 19. Shouldn't be an issue although ram speed might fall to default 2133mhz since it's 8+ 4 or it might not change and say 2666mhz but under perform only way to tell is to test it, but i doubt you have an extra 4 gb stick to compare. By under performing i mean like 3%less compared to 2 sticks of 4 or 8. Although sometimes thier is no loss or less then 1% to make a difference. Laptops are like that because every model has a custom solution. Do it anyways. Won't matter in real life usage. Just make sure you use ram that uses 1.2 volts. Don't ever mess with voltage in a laptop by using ram that use 1.35 v, it might work or it might not end well.
@ DivineSage, how much of 16GB is available(after hardware reservation)? What difference do you see in performance?
13.9 of RAM is usable atm, 2.0 RAM is being used for my GPU or integrated graphics card. As for performance, everything in general is a bit quicker and my Minecraft game runs silky smooth now, before it was choppy with the FPS (Frames Per Second)
@@GRREZ Oh I see you figured out the GPU/RAM thing already. Well, I tried to help anyway :) but glad you realized it. It's nice little config, isn't it?
@@GRREZ Choppy with 8GB compared to 16GB? I know 4GB is a struggle, but I thought 8GB would be enough.
FWIW the render distance in the minecraft bedrock edition is drastically different than Java, since Java is visual and ticking (or simulation) distance whereas bedrock is visual only.
@@one_hoop better on 16gb coz its running in dual channel now. ryzen APU vega graphics benefits a lot in performance by dual channel ram .
Can anyone assist me? I installed an 8gb ram stick from A-tech components, and my keyboard will light up and it shows that my computer is turned on but the screen is black.
Nevermind! Got it fixed! I hadn't plugged the extra one in all the way, I don't know anything about computers so this way suepr helpful! Thanks!
So my computer was just delivered. Nice screen, solid build but when having a couple tabs open in Chrome, the fan keeps coming on. Would adding an additional 8gb of RAM fix this? I need to use chrome for work so either I fix this or it has to go back.
Thanks
joe The cooling system isn’t a problem when it turns on, but if want it to have it quiet for most of the time, then yes, it would “fix the problem”.
joe Also, did you order this laptop?
Could you put both of those on the board?
Why did you disconnect the battery? What if you installed the RAM without disconnecting the battery?
I did it as a safety precaution, also when I was searching on how to do it I came across this video from Acer themselves that recommended it th-cam.com/video/XiadRhJ70Rs/w-d-xo.html
why not put the 4 on the other side ?
I’m planning on using dual channel, with one stick being 4 gigabytes and the other being 8 gigabytes. Will that harm my computer in any way?
Yo can, but not full dual channel. Its a flex mode with 8 + 4. I have that config in my laptop and works well.
Augusto Yulan ok, thanks g
@@ahmvd_dbgh If you haven't upgraded your ram yet i would really recommend that you go with 4x2 or 8x2 since dual channel boosts the performance by a lot.
Would 8GB be enough for smooth light gaming (Minecraft, League of Legends, Roblox)
Bananaminionz those are all light games I’m pretty sure you’re good
After doing this now my laptop screen won't turn on :(
Lmaooo
HeyThereImCloud you probably just forgot to replug in your battery
Make sure you plug in the battery right
The same thing happened to me, I'm looking around and trying to figure out different ways to fix it. But for now, I just reinstalled my old ram. I'll let you know when I fix it, maybe it'll help you out too.
Plug in the battery you idiot
How do you know if it’s upside down
Can someone please help me. I just got my ram and did everything that the video suggested I do, before and after. But my screen goes dark after turning it on. So I tried other methods to get rid of the dark screen but to no avail. So I reinstalled my old ram and my computer started working perfectly fine like nothing happened. I double-checked the ram to see if I bought the wrong one but I checked on crucial again and everything seems in line. So far nothing I tried has worked, please Help!
Oh! And this was the part I got,
A-Tech 16GB RAM Kit for Acer Aspire 5 (A515-43-R19L) Slim Laptop - (2 x 8GB) DDR4 2666MHz PC4-21300 SODIMM Memory Upgrade Modules
Could be the wrong size ram
Did you get single ranked or dual ranked ram? Did you install stick correctly?
same
thing happened to me have u fixed it?
Is browsing the Internet on this computer w the ram upgrade to 16gb smooth and quick and lag free ?
I’d say your good with 8GB for browsing, videos and basic games. Pretty much if you don’t have to run any heavy programs this is good enough.
If you have to have many programs opened at the same time that consume a lot of RAM (premiere pro, AutoCAD, etc.) I recommend 16GB.
Finally, since I have 16 already installed on this computer the performance is amazing.
@@GRREZ what about if i stick a 8gb stick in there and get 12 total ram is that enough to unlock computer full potential?
@@ercushkakulmetov7458 yes. if u get dual channel RAM. 12GB will give you 10 GB system ram and 2 GB gpu memory. should be good enough for the tasks this chip is designed for.
hehe i was the 420th like
How do you disconnect and reconnect the power?
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Damn! I’m having the same problem. I added a 4GB stick for a total of 8GB but my system is showing only 6GB as usable. I watched to see if you had an answer for me but I guess you are just as clueless as I am.
I did some research and apparently the GPU doesn’t use its own RAM. So, it’ll feed off of your systems RAM and in my case when I press the Windows Key + G under the GPU tab it says 2.0 GB of RAM. There is probably a way to configure that but as of now I’m not sure how.
DivineSage115 That makes sense because I’m not running Windows 10, I’m running Linux Mint and it shows only 6GB available. Another observation I made was that I believe I installed 2400 RAM instead of the 2666 that it comes with. Somewhere I read that when you put a slower RAM with a quicker one the system clocks down to the slower one. Let’s not give up hope LMK if you find out anything else I’ll do the same.
@@prodeq12 yeah thats true, the system clocks down to the slower one, i'm gonna buy this laptop and i'm so excited.oh and put a SSD is better and the laptop has the slot.
Why is it a bad idea to add 2 diff size ram?
not a bad idea.
So why unplug the battery?
for not shorting the board accidentally.
Can i remove the 4gb and add 2 8gb?
Definitely.
@@top100amonguspro3 okay thanks, just that i saw some people saying its soldered to the mother board.
Been 1 fucking hour and I still can’t get the screws out
Can this handle 32 ram?
I wanna know too
It can.
yes it can
What about fortnite plz show me
Austin Evans cheap laptop challenge talks about this
how many max ram capacity can this laptop get?
I heard of 32gb, but with this CPU/GPU, I really don't think more than 16gb is needed in any case...