{"id":5757,"date":"2019-11-22T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2019-11-22T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T00:35:25","slug":"memory-upgrade-on-flex-3-1580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5757","title":{"rendered":"Memory upgrade on Flex 3 1580"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vendor specs for a Lenovo Flex 3 1580 say it supports up to 8GB of RAM. There are some <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.lenovo.com\/t5\/Lenovo-IdeaPad-1xx-3xx-5xx-7xx\/Flex-3-15-quot-ram-upgrade\/td-p\/3272367\">forum threads<\/a> that say the D3CN35WW BIOS update supports up to 16GB, but the vendor spec hasn&#8217;t been updated so it&#8217;s chancy. I finally decided to chance it \u2013 I\u2019ve got a few Docker VMs that I use for development, a Citrix published app that I need to access, and I like to have a dozen tabs open in Firefox. All of this means that I regularly run out of memory.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0123BRIDK\">16GB module from Amazon<\/a>, installed it \u2026 and<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"593\" class=\"wp-image-5758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/word-image-15.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/word-image-15.png 666w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/word-image-15-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It works!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vendor specs for a Lenovo Flex 3 1580 say it supports up to 8GB of RAM. There are some forum threads that say the D3CN35WW BIOS update supports up to 16GB, but the vendor spec hasn&#8217;t been updated so it&#8217;s chancy. I finally decided to chance it \u2013 I\u2019ve got a few Docker VMs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[848,849],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-lenovo","tag-memory-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5759,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions\/5759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}