Thanks a bunch! This video was perfect for what I needed to know. Just in case anyone was wondering, the disassembly in this video will also work on an HP 14 dk1032wm. I just got a brand new one yesterday and needed to upgrade the RAM. Replacing the stock stick with a single 8gb replacement dropped my online memory usage from 80% to 54%.
@@ayotundeoluyeye6016 No, I didn't have to reboot it in any special way or reinstall anything. As long as you have a compatible RAM stick they should just work without any problems.
I've been searching high and low for anyone whose worked on my exact model: HP Notebook - 14-df0013ds. And I keep coming up with models that follow a similar naming scheme like this one. And ya know, all these very similar looking HP laptops with all these very similar model numbers reminds me of that scene from Factotum. Hank gets the job packing orders of automotive brakes and his "trainer" shows him the stack of brakes and then the three different boxes for the 'Regular,' 'Super,' and 'Ultra' brakes. Prompting Hank to ask 'What's the difference?' To which the 'trainer' responds, 'None, they're all the same. We just charge different amounts for the same brakes.' I know It's a little different with HP cause I'm sure all these different model numbers have slightly different configurations. But now much you wanna bet, they're ALL in the SAME case.
Somehow i got one with a ryzen 3300u. If you find one of these, get it. It's a great deal for $300. The hdd and low memory is the only issue which obviously easily fixed.
This is exactly the video I was looking for! I have a slightly different model, but same chassis. I'm planning to add a second 8GB stick of RAM (with a matching stick from HP to what come in there) and adding an NVMe drive (I have a 1TB HDD, no SSD) that will be become the primary drive and the HDD will be for additional storage.
Great vid. I put a 16gb crucial ram kit in mine and it works great for older games FONV and Bloodmoney and some light video editing on Openshot. Now I just need more storage...
Thanks for the video, I'm just about to do the same thing. I assume you are using the original Windows key? also what drivers did you need to download from HP?
thanks upgraded mine to 32gb ram (team group 2x 16gb) worked perfectly. now i just need to find a sata cable and install a hdd as well (that 128 gb goes fast) got an old 500gb hdd from a diff laptop just sitting around. figured might as well slap that in there. i actually use mine to do some light gaming on runs the games i play well. terraria. borderlands 2. trackmania. left 4 dead. and some emulators and teknoparrot.
Hey man I got issue playing gta where character models and map doesn’t load fast enough would sdd upgrade help me I have a already did the ram which makes it better but loading the game and world is slow
you remind me of myself , nice video , thanks for not making me watch you remove all the screws, the only thing i can think of you forgot to mention is by upgrading the ram to 2 sticks from 1 you are also now in dual channel , effectively increasing the memory speed x2 ,
Thanks for the video! Do you hace the part numbrer of the kit (ribbon cable+caddy) to install a 2.5" SSD you mention in the video? Thanks again, regards.
Thanx for the video. You made it look so simple to do . I would have thought that you may have cloned the old drive to the new one before you started but if not the end result was the same..
Great video, I figured there were screws under the pads but I didnt want to take them off until I was sure. I have to say I am impressed with how well organized and engineered it was under the hood. 2 screws and the cable and the fan pops right out, memory and storage are right there and simple. Question though, with a low spec laptop such as this, is it really worth upgrading the components instead of gettimg a higher spec laptop? Lately mine has been freezing up and requiring the power button to restart, I don't know if I should upgrade the RAM or buy a new laptop.
I would say a huge A-firm! The freezing issues are usually a result of insufficient ram, especially considering this little ryzen 3 is more than enough processor to handle non gaming and non rendering processes! Get a cheap stick of ddr4 260pin laptop memory for like 20 bucks and the issue should go away. :) At least that's my own opinion on the matter. God bless you friend! :)
I know my model isn’t the same but I’m trying to find the correct SATA cable for my HP MT41 ProBook laptop. Would you happen to know which one I need? Thank you in advance!
Hi Mr.Dale Thanks for this great video its really help me, just wondering, if ever i dont want to replace the 4GB Ram there, and Just add my new 8GB Ram, is this two work together as 12GB RAM?
I still can't find them. About the acer, i can confirm. Considering retail price for similar HDD connectors online, it was a really douchy move on HP's part not to include it in the first place.
Can you tell us if it's possible to upgrade that m.2 slot for 1TB? or that will he too much? What about downside of using two 8gb 3200nhz RAM? I hope you will answer my question
Thank you, great video with lots of info and no absolutely no bullshit! But where can I buy the replacement 256GB M.2 SSD and be sure that the electrical specs and timing specs are OK? It seems that the only original spare part officially available from HP (here in Denmark) is the power cord, so I'll have to find the SSD at an external supplier.
Thank you for the video, it was really helpful in upgrading the RAM in my (similar model) laptop. One thing - I found that double-sided Sellotape held the rubber strips in place really well when replacing them. My laptop has 128GB SATA-3 TLC M.2 RAM with a B+M ended connector. Do you know if there is a maximum volume that I can replace this with? Also, will it need the same connector? I saw in your video you replaced the SSD with one that was either B or M, but not B+M. Finally, can I change from SATA-3 to NVMe? Thank you!
@@Fleecast not yet sadly, but o figured out how to do it on my own. First you need a hard drive connector which I will link. Than, you need to plug in the connector to the motherboard. The the place where you connect it to the mobo is right next the 2.5 drive space. Than, plug in your hard drive and you are good to go. Hard drive connector: rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F264749808765 Note: I am talking about the HP 14 inch laptops, because all of them are basically the same but I am unsure if this connector will work for all of them. Yucaluca7 out!
Hello, Thank you for your video. I have a 14-dq2078WM that i purchased and going to do a RAM upgrade and would like to know if the 2.5HD caddy and cable would work for my computer? I imagine it will, but other HP forums i have seen (esp HP official forum) they say it doesn't. It seems like by your video it will work?
Hi great video ordered ram installed easy also ordered a mx500 500gb crucial ssd to add into space free in hp14-ck0598na I'm struggling to find correct sata cable is any laptop sata cable OK to use
Thank you for the very clear video. Just asking, which are the specs of the ddr4-sodimm you choose to upgrade the laptop? I'm stuck with 8 gigs ddr4-2400, and I was looking forward for some extra speed. and 'bout the cpu, which ryzen is in?
@@federicomacchini3680 that laptop won't go faster than 2400 of ddr4 ram that goes for almost anything unless it supports higher then that witch with laptops you get what you get
My grandson has the hp 14dk1018ca he uses it for his special needs games, but is running out of storage, and runs alittle slow. Suggestions for upgrades?
I have single stick 4GB from factory. I want to upgrade memory. Can I add an 8GB stick to the unused slot to get 12GB or do I have to add another 4GB? Does the size need to match or only the MHz speed for better performance? Thanks.
32gb is overkill for this laptop ,i have same but mine came with 8gb 1 stick , i wanted to upgrade to dual channel though , not sure why they put in 1 stick , it will only run at half rated speed that way, also 4gb when the gpu used 2gb that is crazy that they would sell it with only 4gb as an option, mine shows 5.8 available out of 8gb as it was, also regarding the ssd, i realized after putting in a 3500 read speed m.v evo ssd, i was only getting half that speed according to crystal disk speed test, then after some research i see 2 of the 4 pcie lanes are dedicated to the graphics so yo will only get half the speed of what ever m.2 drive you install. also the speed of ssd decreased from 1750 to 500 when on battery, limitation of this laptop to save power,
Upgraded RAM and the machine is a different beast. Okay not going to break any records but it’s stopped the need for me to purchase another laptop for now! Appreciate this video is old but mine came with a 1TB SSD and I’m thinking to install an NvME to increase the boot speed even more (just for windows etc.) However do these not require a heatsink also?
@@CadillacComputerCenter can we install 16GB +8GB pre installed RAM(Samsung M471A1K43CB1 8GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM) = 24GB RAM Is it support in HP 15g DR0006TX laptop !?
Thank you for the video,could you up the processor at the same time or is there a limit to this,i just thought to make good use of up grade you would need this to. your thoughts,and can this be done? Thanks again.
Which SSD did you go with? I'm probably overthinking this but there's so many different brands to choose from. Obviously this is not a gaming laptop so I don't think it's critical to buy anything super fast or anything.
@@gsdubz9931 I went Samsung because I'm sold on their quality and don't want to take the laptop apart more than once. I got the Samsung 980 and Samsung ram sticks but KNY has lifetime warranty and is good too. I recommend getting at least 16 gb ram and at least 500gb memory just for basic use. Then maintenance is key. I bought my stuff in Best Buy. I've done this uograde to 2 laptops and it works great! Good luck
Is there a quieter more premium fan/heatsink you can replace the stock one with? or anything else you can do to make the fan less noisy? Software tweaks do nothing,
EASY WAY TO SEE HOW MANY MEMORY SLOTS YOUR LAPTOP HAS The easiest solution for Windows users is to open the Windows Task Manager. Press the Windows key, type Task Manager, and then press Enter. OR ....CTRL ALT + DEL In the window that appears, click the Performance tab (A), then select Memory (B). In the lower-right corner, the number of slots is displayed in the Slots used: section (C).
great vid! I have a HP Notebook - 14-df0013ds which looks very similar to this one. Could i accomplish the same iwth this one, including adding a secondary 2.5 laptop drive? Thanks.
I read on Tom's hardware that this eMMC is soldered. So could I still add the 2.5 HDD or SATA SSD. Or should I just give up on this model and install a lightweight Linux?
Thanks for the info. I have this very same laptop, and am going to upgrade to 16gb ram. The space for the extra 2.5mm drive was a welcome surprise. Edit: just tried it , and the replacement ram did not work. Laptop does not boot, and fan cooler starts and stops intermittently. I wonder if it is because I tried it with higher speed modules (2x 3200mhz vs 1x 2666mhz). Any thoughts?
That wouldn’t make much sense why it wouldn’t work, because the ram should be capable of all the common frequencies below the max speed. I had a similar issue when I built my desktop, the ram wasn’t fully secured. When I powered it on the fans would run but right after it would stop and shut down. I replugged the ram and it worked. Just had to make sure it was all the way in.
It would really help. If your camera operator would actually point the camera exactly at the task you are performing. For true novices, they need to see exactly what you are doing. Like snapping the ram out and in - could not see how you did that. Etc.
Hey, do you know if an HP-DK-1023nf has a M.2 Slot ? I get conflicting results by searching online and the HP website doesn't talk about it either. it has a 1Tb hard drive at 5400rpm and I'm afraid it would get slow.
I'm using HP 14-bp100nx Laptop. Is it possible to use an additional SSD? HP 14-bp100nx Laptop comes with 1TB HDD but doesn't have SSD. Highly appreciate for answering.
Thank you for the video. I bout the hp 14-dq1025nr It comes with the 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i3-1005G1 processor i just bought it yesterday and plan to do the same thing. Do you think it can support x2 16 gb of ram. Because my processor runs base 1.19. Gigahertz and 3.4 turbo. Thx 🙏 😊 also do the pins change i looked up some ram on amazon and saw it says 288 pins. Thank you so much in advanced
hey I upgrade my ram to a corsair vengance like yours but when i install it and turn on the pc , nothing is showing on the screen. The pc is on but i am not seeing anything on the screen. can you help me out please?
Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’ll restart for you, I cloned the original drive to an m.2, put it in, added a 2.5 ssd, and replaced ram with 16gb 3600mhz crucial. I don’t know what could’ve went wrong
Quick question i have slightly different model, PC Notebook HP - 14-dk0002dx Can i upgrade it with the same type RAM you used and also will my model support the 2 16GB ?
This was pretty cool tbh. I just got this laptop as a gift and well lets be honest storage space wasnt the greatest and ram was okay. So I'm debating on asking my uncle to upgrade it for me and I buy the parts. But I'm curious am I able to upgrade the cpu/processor of the laptop from my intel celeron N4020 to a intel core i7-8565U
I believe you want to flash the BIOS and then enable Dual-Channel RAM support. But dual channel's not available if the RAM slots aren't matching (ex: it's better to have 2 x 4GB of ram than 1x 4 GB and 1x 8GB) . The latter example isn't dual-channel supported I believe. But you say it's running slower? It should be a bit better even still with more RAM, I'd check up on the DDR type or its transfer rates compared to your original RAM.
I have the hp 14-fq0032od model and it came with 64 gb Emmc built in. But I noticed there is a slot for nvme but no matter what ssd I have tried out in there it’s not recognized by the Bios. And I know it’s not the ssd as I have put them in other laptops and work fine
