Re: RAM Confusion, Elitedesk 800 G2 Tower

Tying this off; it appears that the 8GB G.Skill Aegis sticks I bought not only don't work on this PC, but they screwed up my mobo. Also turns out I inadvertently received dual rank 8GB Crucial sticks from an eBay seller rather than the single rank that Crucial specifies, and that was part of it. Also, it seems that BIOS updates on this must be done from inside BIOS, rather than starting from Windows and going to the HP site that way. In future no HP for me.

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Re: RAM Confusion, Elitedesk 800 G2 Tower

Thanks for the response, sam_sam_sam. This board has a BIOS reset button, so I used that and tried your method. No joy...no matter what RAM module I moved from DIMM1 to DIMM3, I got nothing but 3 loud beeps then 2 less loud ones, and no boot. I also tried installing the Hynix in the other channel and no joy there either. So currently the system will boot using the two 8GB Crucial sticks in channel A, but only see the stick in DIMM1. Or I can leave the stick out of DIMM3 and I'll be able to boot.

The odd thing is that on the...

All - I'm baffled. I have the HP Elitedesk 800 G2 tower PC, with i7 6700. It came with 2 Kingston 8GB sticks of 2133 RAM which worked fine.. I bought my Dad the Elitedesk 800 G2 SFF and swapped the Kingston into that as he needed something ASAP. The SFF came with 2 Hynix 4GB sticks which I installed in my tower and they worked fine. Then when I tried to upgrade my tower back to 16GB, I went with 2 8GB G.Skill Aegis sticks using the NewEgg memory finder, and the fun began. That memory wouldn't work at all. I got an error, 2E1, memory size error. Then, after I tried to put the Hynix modules back...

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