HP 15-F233WM doesn't boot with any 8G DDR3L 1600 1.35v 2Rx8 CL11 so far!!!

[Maduro01]

Hi,

I think it has been more than a year already that I'm trying to make my boot on a  8G DDR3L 1600 1.35v 2Rx8 CL11. You people can not image how many memory banks I tried already and still the machine doesn't boot at the moment that I switch the 4G to 8G and it really doesn't make a deference which brand I use!!!! 

I know that the machine can handle 8G, because I run various test that at the end assure me that the motherboard in combination with the chipset and processor can handle 8G. So!! The question is if HP sold us a configuration  that can handle 8G in two slots, but didn't include the second one!!! 

Listen friends!! I find it kind of frustrating, that I and a lot of other people are having problems with the upgrade of the memory of the  HP 15-F233WM and that on till know HP is not really making a true effort to support us with a machine that they sold us with a manual assuring us that we can upgrade it to a max of 8G Ram. 

Honestly I find the behavior HP toward the owners of an HP 15-F233WM disrespectful!!!! 

Yours Truly

Julio Maduro

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

The PC only supports 4 GB of memory as indicated in chapter 1 of the service manual.

HP 15 Notebook PC Maintenance and Service Guide

Memory Two SODIMM non-customer-accessible/upgradable memory module slots (Core i3 processors)
DDR3L-1600 MHz dual channel support (DDR3L-1600 dual channel support)
One SODIMM non-customer-accessible/upgradable memory module slot (Pentium, Celeron processors)
DDR3L-1333 MHz dual channel support (DDR3L-1600 downgraded to DDR3L-1333)
Supports up to 4 GB max system memory (DDR3L-1600 MHz module)
Supports the following system RAM configurations
● 8192 MB (8192 MB×1 or 4096 MB×2)
● 6144 MB (4096 MB×1 + 2048 MB×1)
● 4096 MB (4096 MB×1 or 2048 MB×2)
● 2048 MB (2048 MB×1)

That is why nobody can get an 8 GB memory chip to work in the 15-f### model series that have the Intel Celeron processors.

And you are 100% correct...the specs for the Intel® Celeron® N3050 indicate that it can support 8 GB of memory, so it must be something HP did to the BIOS to limit the max memory to 4 GB.  They also limited the memory speed to 1333 Mhz.

Intel Celeron Processor N3050 2M Cache up to 2.16 GHz Product Specifications

Anyway, give it up because there has to be at least a dozen posts on this forum where 100% of anyone that tried to install an 8 GB memory chip in the notebook was unsuccessful.