ram upgrade

[Trevor89]

Hey guys. I'm currently looking for some help here. My laptop is a hp notebook -15-db0011dx. It has 4 gb of ram. I am looking to see if it is possible to upgrade the ram on this. My primary function on this laptop is to use it for studio recording, as i am a musician.  My current software is pretty high tech. At times my laptop does lag quite a bit. When i bought the laptop a few years ago, I bought it pretty cheap, as i didn't have the financial funds to buy a nice one. One of the interfaces that i am looking to purchase for studio recording requires 8gb of ram to function properly. I looked online for ram and i did find one that suits my model number. But i am very skeptical on this because i have blown computers in the past after adding ram even though they said it was compatible. I have blown 2 that ended up getting factory reset after the ram was put in. It sounds a bit fishy, but it did happen. Amazon has this ram listed at 70 dollars. Any suggestions is appreciated!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Below is the link to the link to the service manual for your notebook.

Maintenance and Service Guide HP 15 Laptop PC

Chapter 1 has the memory upgrade info.

Your notebook has one memory slot and can support 1 x 8 GB of memory.

That means you will need to remove the 4 GB chip and replace it with an 8 GB chip.

You can buy a compatible 8 GB memory chip for much less directly from Crucial.

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

Make sure that you follow the correct procedures to remove and replace the memory such as unplugging the notebook from the A/C adapter and removing the battery.

You should not be 'blowing' a PC by replacing memory.

[Huffer]

Here is the Service Manual:

Manual 

You have the A6 processor so a single memory slot now filled by a 4 gig module. You can upgrade to a single 8 gig DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM which will downclock to run at -1866 speed. DDR4-2666 or -3200 would work OK, too. See p. 43 of the Manual for "how to".

Don't know about how you did it before but I have done many dozen laptop memory upgrades without issue as long as you get compatible memory. You don't tell us what you found online. You need, as I said DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM and it should be stock OEM stuff like Hynix Samsung, stock Crucial. As so:

https://www.amazon.com/Timetec-PC4-19200-Unbuffered-Notebook-Computer/dp/B07FF92ND3/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?...

Timetec is made by Hynix specifically for Amazon sale. Very good stock OEM memory will work fine for you. The 4 gig to 8 bump should be noticeable but don't expect miracles. 

[banhien]

@Trevor89 

Its specs

            https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c05997528

It has  4 GB DDR4-1866 SDRAM (1 x 4 GB) and it only has 1 slot of RAM, and you can upgrade to  8GB of RAM max using  https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct8g4sfs824a/ct12661999   (RAM will run at 1866MHz).

Your machine is NO good for editing photos and videos.

Regards.

[Trevor89]

Yeah I have the manual. I was just making sure it’s possible because of the fact that you never know what is actually true on the internet! I’ll look into it!

[Trevor89]

This’ll be the first time I’ve tried installing ram on a laptop. I’m more familiar with desktop computer upgrades.