T400 Ram Upgrade, 2x4 Gb, only beeps

Hey guys, I've got following problem.
So far I use 6 Gb (4+2) in my T400 2765-52G. The rams are from Kingston (4gb, kvr1066d3s7/4g) and Samsumg (2gb, m471b5673eh1). This works.
I need additional ram so I bought an 8gb stick from Kingston. But the Notebook only beeped (short pause short short short pause short). I realized the G45 does only support more than 4Gb for each slot. So I ordered 4Gb. First from Kingston (KVR16S11S8/4) then from Samsung (M471b5173bh0). They did not work either. Same result as above.
I removed the ac adapter + battery + bios battery, I did a bios update to 3.25 and changed the slots, tried the single module - nothing.
Do you have any ideas?
Thank you very much,
Jan
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I never could make DDR3-12800 work in a T400, T500 and X200/s. They will just not boot or give typical error beep sequence 1-3-3-1
DDR3-10600 worked so far, so I would suggest you try to get one of those (avoid the "Value Ram" line from Kingston and the "Value Select" line from Corsair)
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A31/i1600/G40/R50p/R61i/S30/SL510/2*T22/4*T4x/11*T6x/6*T4x0x/6*T5x0/3*W5x0/W700/3*X2x/4*X3x/3*X4x/5*X6x/3*X6xT/10*X2xx/2*X200T/4*X30x/Z60m/3*Z61x
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