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I bought my daughter a Lenovo IdeaPad Z580 in the fall of 2013. It came with 4GB RAM. I meant to add more, but forgot. Got to it now.
Lenovo lists a bunch of SODIMM sticks that are compatible, and I bought one of them, a 4GB Hynix. I opened the laptop up, and whew, one slot was still free. Popped it in, ran Memtest86+ 5.01.
The test appeared to hang at one spot; First pass, Test #7, 73% completed on the test, 21% completed on the pass. No errors reported.
I suspected the Hynix, so I pulled out the other stick and ran the test on the Hynix. It completed 8 full passes over about 5 hours with no errors. BTW, surprise, the stick that the laptop came with is a Transcend, and it's not on the HCL. But its specs match the Hynix; 4GB DDR3-1600, 798 MHz, CAS 6-6-6-20 @ 64-bit is the spec for each one as per Memtest.
I put the Hynix back in as the second stick and ran the test again. Hung at the same exact spot. I switched slots for the two sticks and it hung again at the same exact spot.
I pulled out the Hynix and tested the Transcend; it completed two passes without errors or problems. I had to abort because daughter needed the laptop for college assignments.
So individually, they pass, Together, they don't.
The BIOS has never been updated; I will do that tomorrow and see if the two sticks play nice with each other. Currently on ver. 91; latest available (released 08/2014) is ver 95 (these are the only characters different in the BIOS version which is a gobbledygook set of alphanumeric).
Lenovo says for RAM: DDR3 up to 1600 SODIMM (× 2), and the web says 8GB should work.
Could it be Memtest 86+? Shouldn't it say RAM is defective instead of hanging? What I find odd is that even switching slots made no difference. If one of the sticks is defective, it should have hung at a different place I would think.
Something common to all the runs was that I told Memtest to use all the cores (2) and threads (4) on the i3-3110M. Should I try without this option? Incidentally, Memtest shows the CPU temp going as high as 83C. Gave me angina!
Ideas, recommendations? Thanks.
Lenovo lists a bunch of SODIMM sticks that are compatible, and I bought one of them, a 4GB Hynix. I opened the laptop up, and whew, one slot was still free. Popped it in, ran Memtest86+ 5.01.
The test appeared to hang at one spot; First pass, Test #7, 73% completed on the test, 21% completed on the pass. No errors reported.
I suspected the Hynix, so I pulled out the other stick and ran the test on the Hynix. It completed 8 full passes over about 5 hours with no errors. BTW, surprise, the stick that the laptop came with is a Transcend, and it's not on the HCL. But its specs match the Hynix; 4GB DDR3-1600, 798 MHz, CAS 6-6-6-20 @ 64-bit is the spec for each one as per Memtest.
I put the Hynix back in as the second stick and ran the test again. Hung at the same exact spot. I switched slots for the two sticks and it hung again at the same exact spot.
I pulled out the Hynix and tested the Transcend; it completed two passes without errors or problems. I had to abort because daughter needed the laptop for college assignments.
So individually, they pass, Together, they don't.
The BIOS has never been updated; I will do that tomorrow and see if the two sticks play nice with each other. Currently on ver. 91; latest available (released 08/2014) is ver 95 (these are the only characters different in the BIOS version which is a gobbledygook set of alphanumeric).
Lenovo says for RAM: DDR3 up to 1600 SODIMM (× 2), and the web says 8GB should work.
Could it be Memtest 86+? Shouldn't it say RAM is defective instead of hanging? What I find odd is that even switching slots made no difference. If one of the sticks is defective, it should have hung at a different place I would think.
Something common to all the runs was that I told Memtest to use all the cores (2) and threads (4) on the i3-3110M. Should I try without this option? Incidentally, Memtest shows the CPU temp going as high as 83C. Gave me angina!
Ideas, recommendations? Thanks.
