15-f004wm

[Mr_Whisper]

HP 15-f004wm

Can my laptop use a 8GB DDR3L-1600 SODIMM 1.35V  RAM card?

Because crucial says it is compatible, but I can't get it to work.

When ever I put it in and turn my laptop back on nothing happens other than the sound of the hard drive spinning up not ever the screen turns on the light indicating power does though and occasionally the caps lock light.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

In the Manual it says:

One SODIMM non-customer-accessible/upgradable memory module slot (Pentium, Celeron processors) DDR3L-1333 MHz dual channel support (DDR3L-1600 downgraded to DDR3L-1333) Supports up to 4 GB max system memory (DDR3L-1600 MHz module)

You have the wonderful Celeron N2830 so one memory slot as you have seen and I think the Manual is trying to tell us that 4 gigs is the maximum. I am not sure that should be true. I would check the 8 gig module from Crucial against the 4 gig module supplied by HP. Do they have the same number of black memory chips on the side of the module? 

The specified 8 gig module is low density (8 black blocks per side):

https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Technology-1600MHz-PC3-12800-KVR16LS11/dp/B00CQ35HBQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U...

If the Crucial module you have looks the same as the Kingston one linked above and is DDR3L-1600 then I think it is a 4 gig maximum memory system I am sorry to report. 

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