I don't know what vintage Dell server you're talking about, but I have several stuffed with 8GB modules.
On Friday, May 21, 2010, Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA <[email protected]> wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: FOUO > > In my experience with the Dell servers I work with, they won't recognize > memory sticks above 2 GB. I never had a need to put much more than 8 GB in > an server here (all of them 2GB sticks), so that might be skewed. We are > starting to lean toward virtualization, so we might run into your same > pitfall. > > > Respectfully, > > Jonathon Johnson > IASO, Systems/DB Administrator > Fort Gordon, GA > > "It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature." > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Ski Kacoroski > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:38 PM > To: LOPSA Technical Discussions > Subject: [lopsa-tech] Question on Dell R905 and third party memory > > 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 > > -- > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803 > or ski98033 on most IM services > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: FOUO > > > -- Dan _______________________________________________ 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/
