One of the 8 gig ram sticks just went bad and I've decided to ignore the error message from Dell's mem diagnostics tool and just put the memory in.  PC is working with no issues.
I am trying to upgrade the memory for a Dell Inspiron 3847 from 8 gig to 16 gigs.  There are only 2 dimm slots in the PC and currently, they are only 4 gig each. After doing the memory upgrade, I've run the Dell diagnostics and got met with an error stating that the memory exceeded the limit.  I've also run the tool again with only one 8 gig ram stick in the machine and got the same message. Based on one of the manuals that I've read, this system should be able to handle 16 gigs of memory, so I'm not sure why Dell's diagnostics limit is being exceeded.   [URL]   This is the memory that I bought. [URL]   Any ideas?
Memory upgrade on Inspiron 3847 to 16 gigs