First time booting up FW 13 7640, but for 2 hours no boot up screen

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-DIY model

  • Windows 11, if it boots to bios.
  • Laptop 13, AMD 7640
    -Crucial 5600 1.1V CL46 2x16GB CT2K16G56C46S5
    -Samsung 990 Evo Plus 2tb

Fans have been ramping up and down releasing heat for 2 hours, is memory training supposed to take this long?

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Nothing takes 2 hours to boot. Your patience is respectable waiting this long. Go ahead and press and hold the power button to shut off the machine.

Try powering it on again, the memory training will not take more than 5 minutes. If it does this again, contact support right away.

One alternative approach is to remove one stick of ram (I do not remember which slot to leave populated) and then try powering on the machine. If it does not work that way then move the ram to the other slot. Once it boots fine the first time, the second stick of ram may be reinstalled.

The booting with only one stick of ram I thought was addressed in later BIOS releases though I am not 100% certain on that.

Let us know how it turns out. Congratulations on your Framework Laptop and welcome to the community!

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Re-seat the ram and try again, memory training on modern amd platforms takes ridiculously long but we are still talking minutes not hours.

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The laptop will not display anything if there is no ram working.
I would remove the ssd, leave only one ram chip in and seeing if you can get the display working.
If that fails, swap the ram chip to the other socket.
Memory training can take 15mins according to crucial.
Also, look for led flash pattern on the side, where the power plugs in.

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This is a DIY model? Did you already install Windows? It will not be pre-installed.

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Thank you for your help! I attempted booting up with a single memory module on the 0 slot, and it booted up in minutes. I then inserted a bootable drive with the Windows 11 Installation Media I did not use rufus, and set up everything just the way I wanted.

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If one RAM chip works, you can try plugging in the 2nd one as well. It might work.

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UPDATE: It is stuck on Black screen while using 2 ram slots. When booting with 1 ram on slot 0, the system hoots fine with either ram, but it wont boot with 1 ram on slot 1, and when bpth are being used.

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Im having issues booting with both sticks inserted. Even after updating to latest bios, System boots to OS fine when used individually on on slot 0, but not when they are individually placed on slot 1. The LED code is the only thing that is being given to me:

1-blue 10-green 1-red 1-blue 1-green 1-blue 3-green 2-b.

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Slot one may be physically damaged then, you may want to check with support.

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