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Samsung P460 Laptop Ram
I ordered the recommended G.Skill from NewEgg. Will report when it arrives and how it goes. Bill As long as you didn't rely on the newegg Memory Finder tool. I just checked for my T500 2242 and it listed the G.Skill DIMM that did not work. ... along with 247 other 4 GB DIMMs. Buyer beware. John T. I relied on your post in T500. So I am going to blame you if it they do not work :-). My computer has Intel's Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset. I am having a problem with my HDMI port working properly. The screen will start flashing. I have tried different WDDM files and can not get it to work reliably. The VGA port works fine. Did you have a problem with this? Chips I Purchased: G.SKILL 4GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory Model F3-8500CL7S-4GBSQ 2 No HDMI on old Lenovo - " Display Port " instead. Last week, I did have a " no audio " problem when streaming and using the display port -- HDMI cable - into my TV. .. video was OK. I just hooked up the little Altec-Lansing computer speakers to the laptop and had ~ as good audio as the smart TV speakers. ps: I am noticing minor performance improvement with the added RAM ... just certain little delays are shorter than before. John T. |
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Samsung P460 Laptop Ram
Paul wrote:
I relied on your post in T500. So I am going to blame you if it they do not work :-). My computer has Intel's Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset. I am having a problem with my HDMI port working properly. The screen will start flashing. I have tried different WDDM files and can not get it to work reliably. The VGA port works fine. Did you have a problem with this? Chips I Purchased: G.SKILL 4GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory Model F3-8500CL7S-4GBSQ 2 Does your laptop have any BIOS file updates available ? Generally, I don't do such updates, unless the company providing the BIOS, has "release notes" stating what was fixed or improved. A BIOS update that just increases the pool of supported CPUs is pretty useless, as an example of what some releases are for. I don't know if this is the right web page or not, but this example doesn't have release notes and neither do the files seem to (visibly) have anything I can see in a hex editor. I'm not going to execute a thing like this, being a fraidy cat and all. Phoenix PHLASH. 7ZIP didn't unpack it when I tried. https://www.samsung.com/us/support/o...roduct/np-p460 As the owner of a computing product, you're supposed to collect trivia about the thing (general stability, company practices). I didn't even know Samsung made laptops (at least, not for markets on this side of the pond). I wouldn't know whether the BIOS provided was a troublemaker or not. With the RAM, I would be trying combinations. 2+4 perhaps. But the thing is, I think I already checked the address map on this GM45 Northbridge, and it extends to 64GB, so it should not be a mapping problem where the BIOS runs into the end of the address space and doesn't truncate properly. When that has happened in the past, the USB ports start reporting "overcurrent", due to some hardware not being mapped properly. The other possibility, is that it doesn't handle memory hoisting properly, and if that was the case and you had a 64 bit OS, the "available RAM" in Task Manager would show 3/3.25/3.5GB, instead of RAM getting to 4.0GB or 5.0GB or 6.0GB etc, implying hoisting was working. If the screen was going black every two seconds (both screens, not just one), that would be VPU recovery on the graphics driver. If the screen was flickering, I don't know the reason for that, except perhaps a refresh rate that's out of range or something. Paul Everything works fine under Windows 10 Pro x86 including the HDMI. It is under x64 I have a problem. The VGA works fine. The HDMI flickers. I have not been able to find a x64 driver for the 4 Series Express (WDDM). All I have is a 32 bit driver. Not even at Intel's site has an x64 file for Windows 10. Only WinXp (Even tried this). I am still pounding away on x64 when I get time. Still waiting on the memory. Bill |
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Samsung P460 Laptop Ram
Bill Bradshaw wrote:
Paul wrote: Does your laptop have any BIOS file updates available ? Generally, I don't do such updates, unless the company providing the BIOS, has "release notes" stating what was fixed or improved. A BIOS update that just increases the pool of supported CPUs is pretty useless, as an example of what some releases are for. I don't know if this is the right web page or not, but this example doesn't have release notes and neither do the files seem to (visibly) have anything I can see in a hex editor. I'm not going to execute a thing like this, being a fraidy cat and all. Phoenix PHLASH. 7ZIP didn't unpack it when I tried. https://www.samsung.com/us/support/o...roduct/np-p460 As the owner of a computing product, you're supposed to collect trivia about the thing (general stability, company practices). I didn't even know Samsung made laptops (at least, not for markets on this side of the pond). I wouldn't know whether the BIOS provided was a troublemaker or not. If the screen was going black every two seconds (both screens, not just one), that would be VPU recovery on the graphics driver. If the screen was flickering, I don't know the reason for that, except perhaps a refresh rate that's out of range or something. Paul Everything works fine under Windows 10 Pro x86 including the HDMI. It is under x64 I have a problem. The VGA works fine. The HDMI flickers. I have not been able to find a x64 driver for the 4 Series Express (WDDM). All I have is a 32 bit driver. Not even at Intel's site has an x64 file for Windows 10. Only WinXp (Even tried this). I am still pounding away on x64 when I get time. Still waiting on the memory. Bill I have over the years stored all of the Samsung update files on my computer. I have kept the computer updated over the years including the BIOS. Memory is here and installed and system shows 8 GBs. So that is taken care of. Thanks for the help from both of you. I can use the monitor over the VGA but then I do not have a port for a second monitor. I am going to keep plugging away at the HDMI until I finally realize there is no hope. Bill |
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Bill Bradshaw wrote:
I have over the years stored all of the Samsung update files on my computer. I have kept the computer updated over the years including the BIOS. Memory is here and installed and system shows 8 GBs. So that is taken care of. Thanks for the help from both of you. I can use the monitor over the VGA but then I do not have a port for a second monitor. I am going to keep plugging away at the HDMI until I finally realize there is no hope. Bill At least the Northbridge didn't let you down then. Your RAM worked. By the way, you're supposed to run a pass or two of memtest on new RAM - downloads half way down the page. I use an older version here, not the latest, and that's working on all machines. If you don't test the RAM, on Windows you may discover "corrupted Registry" after a while. You want to make sure the RAM is error free. A full pass or two is sufficient. http://www.memtest.org ******* What I own in my computer room, is two VGA monitors. My newest video card has one HDMI and three DisplayPort outputs, and no VGA output. I use HDMI to VGA and DP to VGA adapters, if wishing to run both monitors in the computer room, off the new video card. This is the "year of the adapter", and if you need adapters, it helps to stock a couple in your computer room, The HDMI to VGA one is in permanent use, on the Test Machine with the new video card. I had to select the HDMI port, because the video card "defaults" to that port, and if you run the monitor off a DP to VGA adapter, sometimes when the computer boots, the damn monitor is a black screen. And the signal is coming out of the HDMI port in that case. To "remain friends" with the computer, that's why I have to stick with the stinkin HDMI port, because the video card is in control... and not me :-/ Paul |
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