I have a strange problem with an Ideapad S145-15IIL (nm-c711). This computer has 4 GB of RAM soldered to the board and works absolutely fine as long as the additional SODIMM slot is not populated. When additional RAM is inserted then sooner or later the machine will freeze and show glitches on the screen. Mostly happens in Windows but can also happen in BIOS and also happens when booting a live Linux. Most times it happens straight upon booting the OS but sometimes it works for some minutes before it crashes.
I tried different sticks of RAM, checked the slot and its connections, flashed the BIOS... but nothing helped.
What I find strange is that I never get bluescreens, it´s always graphic glitching that looks like VRAM errors. The laptop does not have a discrete GPU, it is integrated in the CPU (i5-1035G1).
Any ideas for possible causes and things I could try to fix it?
I tried different sticks of RAM, checked the slot and its connections, flashed the BIOS... but nothing helped.
What I find strange is that I never get bluescreens, it´s always graphic glitching that looks like VRAM errors. The laptop does not have a discrete GPU, it is integrated in the CPU (i5-1035G1).
Any ideas for possible causes and things I could try to fix it?
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