On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Keith Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:
I bought a Dell Inspiron 3847 last year (i5-4460/8gb ram/1tb hd).
On 2016-03-04 12:12, Snyder, Alexander wrote:
What kind of Motherboard do you have? Find out what its suggested
RAM speed/vendor(s) are ... Also, if "Dell Says" you're limited to
8GB,
then they might have a BIOS block on it ... which can probably be
reset
to default, allowing the full 32GB, if you wish.
The way to find these things out without having to power the machine
off and peer into the innards is to run "dmidecode > boardinfo.txt" as
root. grep the resulting text file for "Memory" and you'll find the
number of RAM slots and the maximum capacity of the board. dmidecode
should be available for every distro.
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