[CentOS] DIMM problem

Wed Apr 24 20:24:59 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 4/24/2013 10:46 AM, Luigi Rosa wrote:
>>> call HP, that new server should be under support contract, no?
>> A ProLiant G5 is all but "new":)
>
> ah, he said 'all new as of a few months ago'.   actually, thats a
> 2009-ish server, with quad Tigerton/Dunnington quadcore processors
> (roughly equivalent to the Core2 Q series), and it came with a 3 year
> onsite warranty.   It uses PC2-5300 fully buffered dram (ddr2-6700) so
> yeah, that ram is going to be expensive since its an older generation.
> looks to take 4x4 1/2/4/8GB sticks, in pairs, but if you have all 4
> CPUs, you probably need to populate all 4 banks. oh, and there were
> memory expansion mezzenaine cards, so bringing it up to 32 dimms total.
>
> I figured for laughs I'd try and find a ram layout for it, but best I've
> found says its printed on the lid to the CPU/memory module.
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=125&prodSeriesId=3454575&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3454575&objectID=c03047771

I need to consider that - it might help. Anyway, that's it... and
*everything* is populated. Another HBS (you know, the technical term,
Honkin' Big Server... and I forget how many U's)