So I had 2x2gb pc3 10600 ram sticks in my sager np5170 laptop.
I decided to purchase 2x4gb pc3 10666 ram sticks.
After I installed the ram, the pc wont boot, the screen stays black and my HDD light only flickers
on for a few seconds. My gpu and wifi light stay orange as well as my hotswap button (when my pc is normally functioning, an orange gpu light means its using my nvidia chip)
I swapped out the RAM back to my old ram but no dice.
Every once and awhile the laptop with boot for a second and then just shut down.
I would wonder if there is a way to clear cmos like you have on a desktop. What you can try is remove the battery and wait a few and then put it back in and see if that makes a difference.
Message edited by inzone on 02-09-2012 at 08:04:06 PM
By removing the cmos battery you are doing a reset of the bios and sometimes that helps with the clearing of settings so you can start over so to speak and since you had a different ram in there maybe the bios got confused and a reset might help. If you could get to go into the bios you could do a reset there but sometimes when the computer won't even boot this is the only option unless you had a clear cmos button , which some motherboards have.
Message edited by inzone on 02-09-2012 at 08:04:56 PM
Clearing the Cmos should not make a difference. Sounds like you knocked something loose. If it was just RAM compatablity, the old RAM would have set thing right. Check to see if you were near the CPU heat sink. Overheat will shut the system down. Otherwise look for loose connections like ribbon wires. Gentle flexing of the system board may help a bad connection as well.
I would put in the new ram since you don't want to have the same thing happen again and you do want the laptop to use the new ram. You are sure that you laptop is compatable with the new ram that you bought?