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‎08-04-2025 03:47 AM - edited ‎11-10-2025 01:57 PM

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I'm in the process of upgrading the RAM of my notebook and have found conflicting information on max size. The board does support two sockets, but on this particular model there is only one soldered socket ready for use.

According to the BIOS information (dmidecode) a sum total of 32GB is supported (presumably 2x16GB), other sources state that 16GB. Question is, the latter referring to only available socket or does it require two sockets (2x8GB)?

 

Edit (if anyone else looks for an answer to this): I've successfully installed one stick of 16GB SO-DIMM, which would confirm that the motherboard/CPU supports a total of 32GB SO-DIMM (hadn't the second RAM socket been removed) i.e. a theoretical maxium of 2x16GB RAM.

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‎08-04-2025 07:30 AM

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I've heard of folks installing 1 x 16 GB of memory in notebooks with the A4/A6 processors but officially only 1 x 8 GB Is supported according to the service manual:

 

c0cdca.pdf

 

The fact that Windows reports you can install 32 GB of memory in the notebook (if it had two slots), is encouraging and would be why folks were successful with installing a 16 GB memory chip in the one slot.

 

Make sure you buy standard memory with standard timings.

 

DDR4-2400 CL17, DDR4-2666 CL19 or DDR4-3200 CL22

 

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