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01-22-2019 07:16 AM - edited 01-22-2019 07:23 AM
I use may laptop for astrophotography, and I wanted to upgrade the memory from 8gb to 16gb. I purchased the exact same memory except for the size. It would slow the system down to a crawl when installed. I checked the bios on the system and it had never been updated form F.03 and the latest was F.27 Rev A
(I had updated to Win7 Ultima and a 256gb SSD drive. ) The system was running much better than it was.
HP's site recomends updating the bios to F.27 Rev A
I downloaded the Bios and ran it. It went thru the loading process and said it completed successfully. It then rebooted.
I waited about ten minutes with nothing but a black screen. I powered down and restarted, still a black screen.
I tried the hard power reset, no luck. I tried the hold windows key and B, no luck. I tried windows key and V, no luck.
I tried build USB drive , no luck.
I need this lap top so I bought a used motherboad on Ebay and will install it if there is no other solution.
Also I really would like to upgrade the memory, but do not want to BRICK another motherboard. Is there a problem with ver F.27 BIOS, has any one upgraded to a later verison of the bios with success? Ver F.25 says it ( Optimized the memory settings to improve the reliability of the memory system) will it fix the slow 16GB problem???????
ANY HELP WITH THIS WOULD BE NICE.
thanks
chuck