I have seen customers have the same issues with Crucial RAM on Dell R410 and R710. Dell memory worked perfectly but the Crucial RAM constantly gave them blue screens and random lockups. I personally have never had an issue with Crucial RAM before and neither had the customer.
Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/> On 1/23/12 1:14 AM, "Kurt Buff" <[email protected]> wrote: >A couple of things: > >o- I've noticed that updating a new Win2k8 R2 SP1 machine requires >with WSUS requires a reboot or two for all of the patches to be >finalized. > >o- I had a Dell R310 to which I applied Crucial memory, and it didn't >work. Even after a return for new RAM. I had to get actual Dell RAM. >That was middle of last year some time. That had never happened to me >before. Crucial had always been right on, but not that time. I haven't >had occasion to do it since, but a word to the wise is sufficient... > >Sounds like a more exciting night than you wanted, but also like real >progress. Good luck with the rest of it. > > > >Kurt > >On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 22:58, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: >> Š.but it wasn¹t. >> >> >> >> · I was loaded for bear I even brought my own personal >>PowerEdge >> 840 Xeon that already has 2008 R2 Hyper-V in case I needed to >>temporarily >> host their VM. (It¹s my lab system, but would work in a pinch!) >> >> · I had good backups of all VHD¹s in THREE places (eSATA >>attached to >> their main VM host , NAS, and their other Hyper-V server) >> >> · I had all the Dell firmware updates to make sure I was >>up-to-date >> for R2 compatibility (and yes I actually read the notes on what did >>what. >> Amazing I knowŠ) >> >> · Existing host was fully patched 2008 64-bit non-R2 (relevant >>for >> later). >> >> >> >> * Step 1:Add RAM to go from 8GB to 16GB. I have two 4GB sticks, >> documentation I see (on Œnet, prior to today) says add RAM in pairs. >>Open >> caseŠthere¹s two physical CPU¹s and inside the case says ³add pairs of >>RAM >> *PER CPU*². Oops. Fail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
