Memory upgrade beyond 8gb max

[dvdweide]

Hello everyone, I'm new here.

I have this trusty old banger, and i'd like to repurpose it as an experimental linux machine. It's memory has already been updraded to 8gb, but I would like to upgrade it further to 16gb.

I found a suitable 16g sodimm module for it, but 16gb is beyond the maximum supported memory of 8gb.

https://www.digikey.com/htmldatasheets/production/1952788/0/0/1/mt16ktf2g64hz.html

My question is, has anyone tried this before? How do you estimate the success rate of this upgrade?

Thanks!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

I would speculate that a single 16 GB memory chip wouldn't work.

Chapter 1 of the service manual indicates the max memory is 1 x 8 GB.

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I don't know anything about Linux, but folks tell me that there is a command you can run to get a report of the maximum memory the PC can support.

How To Find Out Maximum Supported RAM In Linux - OSTechNix

With one memory slot if the report indicates 32 GB, then it may be possible for a single 16 GB memory chip to work.

If it reports 16 GB, then the chances of a 16 GB chip working are not good.

The report will probably pick up the circuitry for the nonexistent second memory slot.