Strange symptom with memory upgrade
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2023 11:25 pm
I have an Ace Magician AM06 Pro Ryzen 7 4800U MiniPC. This unit comes with 16GB of DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM RAM in 2x8GB sticks. I replaced these with 2 32GB sticks for a total of 64GB. I used G.Skill RipJaws sticks, part number F4-3200C22D-64GRS, which as far as I can tell, should be a compatible device.
Everything seemed fine, except when I try to restart the system, for example to apply system patches, the system fan comes on and stays on and the restart does not proceed beyond that point. If I fully power off and then power back on, the system starts normally. I can't see anything relevant in the Windows system logs, so I guess whatever is going wrong is happening very early in the restart sequence. Obviously, this is a problem, since system updates are not getting applied correctly; they require an uninterrupted restart sequence and full power down seems to kill the updates.
When I reinstalled the original system RAM, the system returned to normal behavior.
Any ideas? Is there some BIOS incompatibility I'm running into?
Everything seemed fine, except when I try to restart the system, for example to apply system patches, the system fan comes on and stays on and the restart does not proceed beyond that point. If I fully power off and then power back on, the system starts normally. I can't see anything relevant in the Windows system logs, so I guess whatever is going wrong is happening very early in the restart sequence. Obviously, this is a problem, since system updates are not getting applied correctly; they require an uninterrupted restart sequence and full power down seems to kill the updates.
When I reinstalled the original system RAM, the system returned to normal behavior.
Any ideas? Is there some BIOS incompatibility I'm running into?