On Thu, 20 May 2010 14:38:07 -0700 Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Just wondering if any one has had luck with third party memory in a > Dell R905 server. I purchased a lot (96GB) to upgrade my R905 server > and went with third party (Crucial) memory because it was half the > cost of the Dell memory. The server does not recognize the memory. > Both Dell tech support and Crucial tech support said the specs on the > Dell memory and the Crucial are the same, but no luck. The machine > is at the latest bios, I followed the Dell procedures for memory > installation and configuration, and am using 4GB sticks. So before I > send it all back and try to find several more thousand $$$, has > anyone been able to make third party memory work and if so which > brand and what if anything was done to make it work. > > cheers, > > ski > I have not worked on our R905 at all here but the last time I had any issue with memory in one of our Dell servers was when they sent us all dual ranked memory and the server could only handle a total of 12 (from memory) ranks total. We had to use a pair of dual ranked dims and fill the rest of the slots with single ranked dims. I would check that first. I'm assuming you have asked Crucial for replacement dims in case you managed to find a bad one? I would install individual pairs and see if I can get any to work. Charlie _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
