Upgrading from 8GB to 16GB

I just purchased a 16 GB upgrade from OWC for my current 8 GB that came with the computer (27-inch Mid 2011 10.8.2). I agree with other discussion comments that they are extremely hard to extract and you have to be careful plugging them in. I plugged both of them in and I feel they were properly seated but the computer was dead. I took them both out and replaced them with the two 4 GB and of course everything was fine. Then I put one of the replacements in and left the 4 GB in the top slot and the computer worked fine. But I took the second 8 GB and plugged it in trying it in each of the top two slots and I got nothing. I Contacted OWC support and after I explained the steps that I had taken, they suggested returning it to be tested. I almost want to settle for the 12 GB I have now since it has really speeded things up. Has anybody else run into this problem?

Sounds like you just got a bad module. Does OWC want you to return both modules or just the one you think is no good?
If they just want the suspected bad one back send it to them and keep running with the 12gb until they send you a replacement then install it.

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