Upgrading Newer HP 17.3" Laptop With New RAM And M.2 NVMe SSD

[@konoisms_]

this video feels like my grandpa teaching me how to upgrade my computer in the shed in his backyard.. your voice is so so so similar to him and this video is so calming. i have this exact model and i got two crucial RAM sticks and had no clue how to get the back off!! this helped me so so much, thank you dale!!

[@garylammers6381]

Thank you for this excellent video! Following your process worked perfectly and now my laptop has been upgraded from 8 Gb to 24 Gb of RAM. You time and effort and help is greatly appreciated! One thing i did find was that after removing the screws, since i had trouble making the 'plastic pry tool' work on the top side, applying pressure via thumbs to the edge of the back cover allowed it to be removed fairly easily. Thank you again.

[@Rammbin]

This video (and some Southern Comfort) got me through a nerve-wracking RAM upgrade (I'm a n00b). Some tiny plastic brackets or whatever flew all over the place but the laptop survived and runs a lot faster. Thanks Dale!

[@HardPause]

When you did the install did you just drop the chips in and then run the computer?

[@Rammbin]

@@HardPause That's right, plug and play.

[@edwardaudet8367]

Dale nice to see some who knoddles it out and talks to themselves!!! Really great video thank you 😊

[@casperellison5729]

I do the same for my sister’s laptop, but i just lift the rubber, unscrew and put back the rubber, never peel it off. Don’t want that rubber sticking to anything. Great video once again!

[@huulegobetrotter1660]

There were two other screws under the second rubber piece with a similar model. I appreciate you taking the time to make this very informative video.

[@jkonkle]

Thanks Dale I was able to use this to understand how the cover completely comes off. I did upgrade to 64gb as well and the POST after installing took a little bit longer than I was expecting. The screen did not come on at first, it looked like the display was not working/disabled. Not so, about 5 mins in and it came on. As a side. My battery was 100% empty so had to be plugged in to come on. Thanks again for the video it’s helping us!

[@BrianBruton-v8i]

That last chance comment about VMD saved my install! Thanks

[@Ted_E_Bear]

Great job Dale !

[@CadillacComputerCenter]

Thanks buddy

[@michaeldyaeger]

As a side note, if you have an optical drive, there is one extra screw right in the middle in the back that holds the drive in. Just remove it first and slide the drive out before proceeding with the back cover removal.

[@s.t.4611]

Nice concise video. Helped me with my same model laptop memory upgrade. Thanks!!

[@dave4shmups]

Great work Dale!

[@uzumakinaruto6281]

Your doing great job❤ thank you soo much

[@jeffme6891]

I bought the same machine in open box condition for a very low price. I did the same upgrade, but kept the hard drive for storage. If you do keep it, but want to boot from the new SSD; you must keep the hard disk disconnected for the first boot. There will be prompts as the cmos gets updated. Afterward, re-attach the hard disk and the machine will continue to boot from the SSD.

[@GGelatoW]

I know it's been 4 months since your comment, but is there really nothing else to it? No cloning the hard drive? Just plug in the ssd, boot it up without the hard drive, then turn it on and boot it again with the hdd in this time? I would really appreciate a response, I attempted to switch them almost a yeat ago but couldn't figure it out so I'm still booting from the hdd. Any help is greated appreciated.

[@jeffme6891]

No, you have to clone the HD BEFORE removing it, and booting from the SSD. You will get a CMOS error, but just continue on since the error is normal.@@GGelatoW

[@BigRedAdventures]

Great video, it helped me upgrade my RAM.

[@valensiyagames]

Thanks for the help. Shame to HP for hiding screws under those feet.

[@michaeldyaeger]

Great video! Just needed to know where a couple of hidden screws were. 😁

[@adriennecrosby4105]

Excellent video!

[@kimbalmccoy4892]

Great video as usual!

[@charlesmorris8791]

Thank you!

[@jnmldo]

Thank you very much sir! You helped me a lot

[@Fossil_gaming]

Very helpful video thank you sir for your hard work.

[@wayneburba9457]

Very good video, loved every minute. It comes when I just got one used want to upgrade same way. Is it possible to ask what breakdown of cost , before I go see a tech person?

[@williamhanna5224]

Excellent !

[@mlauntube]

Thanks, it helped. Unfortunately, I got a BIOS check sum error and it reverted to factory default bios settings. I'm running Linux Mint and there is some sort of bios driver security that needed an approval key. It was a long process of getting the driver and install files on my phone, then USB transfer to the laptop and some command line action.

[@azterahstudios]

Glad I stumbled upon this. I am currently using HP 17 -cp0xxx and it's not being registered under Crucial on finding compatible RAM upgrades. Would you know if I could upgrade a 12bg ram to 32 gb? Thanks!

[@emilianodelvalle]

Hey Bro, I also have the same laptop and from what I have researched (according to HP itself) it can only be expanded to 16 GB of RAM, I also wanted to expand it to 32 GB, as it is possible because if you enter the command in the CMD Regarding how much memory the system supports, it says it is 32 GB, so it would just be a test.

[@donaphx7921]

Did that NVMe SSD have a Form Factor M.2 (2280) you installed? If so, do these newer HP 17.3 Laptops with NVMe SSDs use that same form factor in most cases?

[@skyfistoflight]

Warning! This is not the newer 17" 2023 HP Envy. On mine, the foot was not rubber and removing it destroyed it (it didn't come off cleanly) and turned out to be unnecessary as there were no screws. Also, while the M2 drive was easily accessible, the RAM was not visible as it is under a plate.

[@BluePalmetto]

I didn't know this had an m.2 slot. Wow

[@BruceFieldman]

I want to do the m.2 portion of this upgrade on a different 17.3 HP laptop (HP 17-cp103cl). This one has an amd processor. There is also a m.2 slot, but there are no drivers on the HP website and other users have indicated that the laptop wouldn't recognize the drive. I am wondering how to verfify that this will work before I purchase the drive, and where drivers can be found.

[@luisgamingmx]

I have a question. If i want to upgrade RAM and SSD in a Hp15 dy2795wm do you recommend first make a windows 11 bootable USB? Thank you I appreciate your content!

[@warpspeedpower]

These series of laptops, along with the smaller 15.6" screen version, have 2 slots for the DDR4 RAM. Whereas most laptops nowadays with DDR4 have one RAM module soldered to the motherboard and one normal slot (regardless of the brand). This prevents the customer from upgrading the RAM to the highest possible configuration that the CPU is compatible with. For example, instead of being able to install 2 x 32GB = 64GB total, you're stuck with 4/8/16GB soldered + 32GB max in the slot. 8 + 32 is what happened to me with my new Lenovo and therefore 40GB max instead of 64GB max. Most other HP laptops have this stupid configuration as well. Forget DDR5 laptops because pretty much all of them have soldered RAM an NO extra slot. This is the same crap that Apple have been doing for some years now along with soldered SSD chips. They essentially want to prevent you from performing service or upgrades so that you have to eventually throw the computer away and buy a new one prematurely. In essence I suggest grabbing either the 15.6" or 17.3" version from this series, AMD or Intel. I recently purchased the 15.6" version named G9-255. AMD 3150u, 8GB RAM, 512GB M.2 NVME SSD. It even has the compartment for a SATA drive, but the connector and flat cable are not included. I got those for about US$5.00 from AliExpress. I slapped in a 1TB SATA SSD and it works great. Btw, the predecessor model G8 has almost the same configuration.

[@GGelatoW]

I know it's been 6 months since you posted this already, but if you didn't have a fresh windows to install on this computer, would there be any way to clone/mive windows from the hdd to the new ssd?

[@jimbomier4394]

Hi Merry Chrismas, thank to you i upgraded my ram to 24 (8+16) and allocated 4 to vram (20 ram and 4 vram), but i cant add a ssd, the sata port is available but my laptop came without flex my question is, what model is the sata flex for this laptop? Greetings

[@chrisv-panda9295]

I failed to continue installing window 11 23H2, saying that there is no drive to install windows like you, but I saw that you did something, I think you installed the IRST driver, where I failed to find it through the intel website, it seems like the Zip file is not available at the moment. so if you can provide me those drivers through google driver I will be very grateful. Please

[@emybaby64]

hey bud great video my client has this model but it didnt come with a hard drive cable or caddy bracket for the standard hard drive it only came with an m.2. do you know what the part number is for that caddy? will a universal one work? theres a screw hole right the left of the hard drive slot there, but i didnt see you take any screw out when you popped that old drive out, is it being held in place by tension?

[@regis7136]

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[@LaniLuxury]

I’m stuck on the Bios won’t boot up screen. I don’t have Legacy boot up on my newer HP also I don’t have a flash drive. I upgraded my ram and ssd and now my pc won’t fully boot up…

[@scottgilbert7927]

Hi Dale, this is a great video. I want to upgrade the hard drive to an SSD in a 17" older HP laptop that I have had since 2014. I don't have the model number right now in front of me, but this one has an external battery in the rear and an optical drive. I removed all exposed screws and started to remove the top from the pan using the method you show, and everything went fine till I tried to pry the rear. It is not coming, so obviously I need to remove something else. There are no hidden screws under the rubber foot, but I am wondering if I need to remove the optical drive, and maybe something else. If you can advise me on this I would be grateful. Thanks!

[@CadillacComputerCenter]

Hi. You will have to remove the optical drive. Also male sure there are no screws in the battery area. It can be difficult sometimes to get the back released. I have several videos on opening up hp 17.3 inch laptops on my channel

[@scottgilbert7927]

Thank you so much Dale. I'll look at those videos and let you know how it goes.. Cheers!

[@davidsscope]

Why do you not have any videos for Toshiba upgrades?

[@SkipperGas]

Would have been nice to leave the SSD cable in there.

[@jamming8519]

why do you lift up the keyboard part of the laptop? There doesn't seem to be any reason for it if you've taken out all the screws to remove the bottom!

[@FarmerPierce]

Can a HP 17t-by300 ram be upgraded? Has 8gb now and I am not sure what the max capacity could be. Also unsure what ram I should go with? PNY I trust.

[@theultragamer23]

I have a HP 15-fc0018na Laptop with 4gb of ram and I’m looking to upgrade the ram to 8gb I have a integral 8gb ram module ddr4 3200mhz pc4-25600 is this compatible with the laptop mentioned above many thanks

[@paulwarner5395]

Pretty unusual to find a new laptop with the HDD rather than an SD or some type. Nice video

[@iitzfizz]

Also with 12GB of RAM is weird too. Usually 8 or 16

[@omersayli]

Nice job. You may clean the laptop screen with a fiber cloth instead of that paper towel at @11:05

[@shawsmining]

will these take 128 g of ram and can you replace the i5 with i7 cpu . i just bought HP 17.3 HD+ Touchscreen Laptop Intel Core i5-1235U 12GB 512GB SSD and to slow for me . i want to max it out

[@Golfexpertbelieveme]

oh this is awesome. I have the exact same laptop. How big of an SSD card can I put in? Is there a limit? Also can this laptop have 64Gb Ram? so Two 32GB Sticks? What do i do if I dont take my old HD out cause I have a bunch on there?

[@MatthewFarnell2009]

Did you ever upgrade the memory? Do you know the max it will handle?

[@Golfexpertbelieveme]

I dont know what the max is. I installed 32GB of RAM and I had a 2TB SSD Stick installed. I couldnt get the Stick to install correctly. There is some stuff that I dont know about with the sytem of this type of computer. I ended up taking it to a small town IT Gal that had to figure it out. She even said it was really weird. Wasnt just a quick and easy reboot and switch to the new SSD. I also left my HD memory in there for my physical memory of files and what not. This computer flies now. All in all it cost me like $300 to upgrade it and that includes paying the IT gal. But I had gotten my RAM and Memory on black friday sale. @@MatthewFarnell2009

[@brianyoung8818]

Can I put a 500gb ssd hard drive where there is a place for one the same as on yours

[@MatthewFarnell2009]

Do you know what is the maximum amount of memory you can upgrade to on this laptop?

[@shaunnathanson6905]

Good job brother you using SP brand now no longer evos or p3.

[@hassanmulhammohamed4632]

Is it possible to put a hard disk in a laptop that only came with an nvme ssd?

[@jayminc3442]

If i keep the HDD in, and want to keep window 10, is there any easy way to just transfer OS and files to SSD once installed?

[@RoastBeefSandwich]

Dale has videos on his channel about cloning. Basically once you clone, format the hdd.

[@shawsmining]

are the cpu's soldiered in it

[@AbelardoCisnero]

Which driver did you use?

[@Idk-ui1ws]

Just realized, opened my laptop for the first time and it doesn’t have a drive, is this normal?

[@trevordp]

It might be because it's not user replaceable and is soldered to the board.

[@charleshines2142]

I like hard drives. They are good for longer term data storage since flash memory will become corrupt after some time. Even an SSD is prone to this an there are none that I know of that are not. You would not want your only copy of any data to be on any flash memory for 10 years only to come back to it and your files are either gone or corrupt. SSDs are great for speed and they also don't have that nasty habit of becoming unusable if you are a klutz and drop it on the ground. While there is some chance a hard drive may still be OK for a short time period after that you may just want to get your files from it while you still can and distrust it some from that point on.

[@rezmedic57]

Hate the way hp makes the colors of the letters so close to the color of the keys. Returned a new hp because of it.

[@RoastBeefSandwich]

Get a black laptop. Easier to see black keys white letters

[@iitzfizz]

I didn't realise laptops still came with HDD's. Also 12GB is a weird number to come with stock.

[@drummer7557]

I got the one at Sams's with 8 gb of DDR4, 512 SSD, and the I5 12th gen. I mean it's a laptop, why would I need to upgrade it any further. More ram is overkill imo, and I have tons of external storage. I only use mine for music, movies, downloading media etc. Never understood people buying something just to tear it apart. But to each their own, nice job.

[@khonglienquanlam259]

1 stick of 8gb ram means it's single channel which severely hampers graphics performance. If you want light gaming adding ram is a must. Ram is also very cheap these days