On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:55:35PM -0600, Richard Esplin wrote:
Before calling Lenovo support, I decided to test each sodimm alone in the
system to rule out the memory. When I saw that each one could be seen, I put
them all back in and the system recognized the full 16 GB. I guess one or two
I am curious if anyone has any insight into my problem.
My new ThinkPad W510 arrived today. Though it is a nice machine, I am very
annoyed that Lenovo stopped selling machines with Linux preinstalled. But that
is a complaint for another day.
I ordered the minimum RAM from Lenovo, and then
Any suggestions on what I should do next?
Call Lenovo support. They might give you the run-around because you
didn't buy the memory with the laptop, and it may not be in the supported
memory list, but you can try.
I'm sure someone with more knowledge will correct me, but the way I
understand
Thank you for the suggestion.
Before calling Lenovo support, I decided to test each sodimm alone in the
system to rule out the memory. When I saw that each one could be seen, I put
them all back in and the system recognized the full 16 GB. I guess one or two
sodimms were not correctly seated
