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July 24th, 2024 09:18

Dell G15 (5515 Ryzen Edition) not accepting more than 16GB of RAM?

Dell G15 5515 Ryzen Edition

Dell G15 5515 Ryzen Edition

Hello. I have purchased two Kingston RAM modules for my Dell G15 5515 Ryzen Edition laptop. 2x16GB Fury Impact DDR4, 3200Mhz 1.2V. The problem I encountered is the Laptop will say it encountered an error and needs to restart. It happens every time when I open my usual programs, like web browsers and a video game at the same time. When I quickly open task manager, I can see the correct amount of RAM is recognized in Windows. I also tested the RAM modules individually and they seem to work fine... But the moment I put them together, it's just a matter of time before the laptop will show the error with the blue screen. For the time being I put the original RAM modules back in and it works fine.

BIOS version is 1.20.0 - could downgrading the BIOS version to, say, 1.16.0 possibly solve my issue? There's a post on reddit from a G15 5530 user: they have an extremely similar problem to mine, with 32GB of RAM being the maximum amount "Accepted" by their laptop. (https://old.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/1c2903c/dell_g15_5530_and_g16_7630_bios_update_version/)

Has anyone here also encountered this? Thanks in advance for any replies.

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July 24th, 2024 10:57

Fury RAM is aggressively timed and will fail to work in your system, which has no provision for adjusting memory timing.

If you want Kingston RAM, this is the RAM you need:

https://www.kingston.com/en/memory/search/model/103236/dell-alienware-g15-5515

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