Upgrading a Predator PO3-600 Having Issues

BUBBLEGUPPY15

Hello all,

What should have been a nice and easy upgrade has turned into a nightmare. I'm trying to increase the ram and ssd hdd space on my machine. I am not sure if I just purchased the wrong items, or what but nothing is going right.

I have a PO3-600 as far as I can tell from the sticker on the base of the machine. I purchased a 1TB NVME M.2 Kingston drive. I cloned my 256gb Kingsgton NVME M.2 drive onto this. The clone was successful. The computer will not boot. I get 2 beeps at startup, and the monitor does not turn on.

I purchased 3x16gb DDR4 Ram sticks, to replace the 2x8GB inside the machine. I replaced the ram and get 2 beeps at startup and the monitor does not turn on.

Any combination of drive + ram other than the original configuration leads to two beeps and no startup. If i put the old ram and old drive in, it boots.

I have reason to believe the original drive is failing hence the migration over, but I have no idea why it won't boot.

The told drive is the "3 teeth model" NVME and the new one a "2 tooth model" NVME but they both read fine in the same docking station.

The ram is a different brand because at the time of purchase I could not see the brand information.

I am frustrated and out of ideas - any suggestions? Having to strip down the entire case to get to the SSD is annoying a.f and it's worn me down.

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/673837/upgrading-a-predator-po3-600-having-issues

two beeps mean bad RAM or incompatible RAM, as your new RAM is the wrong 3x 16GB ram modules and you bought overclocked or RAM that is not compatible. Install CPUz and look at this software's Memory and SPD sections specs of your 2x 8GB OEM ram modules, look at "Memory" at CAS# Latency (CL) and SPD Module Manuf and Part Number and match those specs to the same, as your existing modules are the wrong types. Or do the Crucial System Scan, and look at the results, as this scan will suggest all the compatible and newer RAM for all DDR4 RAM modules (like DDR4-3200MHz) as Acer only suggests DDR4-2666Mhz max that are compatible, Crucial has many capacities/combinations/specs of RAM for all budgets for your desktop.

With the M.2 drive, below are the recommended Acer M.2 drives (note the capacity is not limited to 256GB, as capacities are only limited in windows by the drives format e.g., MBR is up to 2TB and GUID (GPT) is 2TB up). The below Acer recommended, and compatible M.2 drives are an NVMe PCIe 3 x4 and that is what you should use, the 2.5" drive is a SATA 3 6GB/s type of either a spinner HDD or an SSD drive. If you used the proper cloning software and followed the exact new M.2 manufacturer's cloning instructions and used their recommended software for cloning of their drives, then you shouldn't have any problems with the clone, as you must have done something wrong. Good luck and hope this helps you out👍

Acer M.2 recommended drives

PO3-600 "User Manual" RAM/Specs upgrade setup and DIMMs combinations

Acer RAM specs

Acer recommended RAM module types

billsey

With the original memory installed put the old SSD in and boot to Windows. Use Disk Management to see the partitions on both drives. Show us that info so we can verify the cloning process did what it was supposed to. What memory did you get, specifically? It needs to match the original in speed and since you are only using three modules (two or four modules will be much faster since you can use dual channel mode) they need to be in the slots described in the above post. Putting them into a different combination of slots will not work.