HP Pavilion 15.6 inch Laptop PC 15-eh1000 (2H5A6AV) Upgrading RAM and SSD

[_sanket_]

i have HP Pavilion 15.6 inch Laptop PC 15-eh1000 (2H5A6AV) and i want to upgrade ram and ssd of my laptop. I want to know how many M.2 slots are present on the motherboard and max capacity of ssd it can support (it has 512 GB ssd installed). Also should i be worrried about CAS latency before buying new RAM stick. And which company RAM should i buy, my laptop has Hynix 2x4GB DDR4 3200MHz ram already installed.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Chapter 1 of the service manual has the memory upgrade info and the drive configurations HP offered in the model series.

Maintenance and Service Guide (hp.com)

Your notebook can support 2 x 8 GB of DDR4-3200 memory.

It is probably CL22 which is what you should use if it is.

You can run the free utility that I zipped up and attached below and it will show you the timing specs of the memory.

I recommend Crucial memory.

8 GB:

Crucial 8GB DDR4-3200 SODIMM | CT8G4SFRA32A | Crucial.com

16 GB:

Crucial 16GB DDR4-3200 SODIMM | CT16G4SFRA32A | Crucial.com

If you want to install more than 2 x 8 GB of memory you can run this command to see if it is possible:

1. In the search box, search for cmd and click Run as administrator.

This will open the command prompt.

2. Once the command prompt is opened, type wmic memphysical get maxcapacityEx and hit enter.

There, it will show the maximum RAM capacity your PC's motherboard can support.

The capacity is shown as Kilobytes, so you have to convert it to Gigabytes by dividing the number provided in the report by 1,048,576.

SSD:  Your notebook appears to have support for only one M.2 SSD.

There is a line drawing of the location of the M.2 SSD in chapter 5, page 42 of the manual where you can see the NVMe SSD is located just to the left of the memory banks.