Keith Roberts wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
From: m.roth@5-cent.us
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May I recommend looking at the docs that tell you what order the DIMMs need to be put into the board in? If you've got four slots, for example, I'll bet that it's 1 and 2, then 3 and 4, or maybe 1 and 3, then 2 and 4. I'd feel safe putting identical DIMMs in each pair, so that the first two are the bigger ones, and the second pair are smaller. A number of our servers *require* pairs, so if I start getting a lot of ECC errors, they send me a pair to replace them.
Thanks for that Mark.
The board acually only has 3 DIMM slots. Each slot will take 1GB maximum of RAM.
I do understand what you are saying about matching DIMM's in pairs on a 4 slot board.
I think I'd check the docs anyway - the order that you put DIMMs in may matter, and it may be happy with 1G,1G,512M, and not 512M, 1G, 1G, or whatever.
Main reasons for choosing this board was:
a) price b) 5 PCI slots - so plenty of room for adding other stuff.
Well, if it's yours, of course, price. Slots... *sigh*, gonna have to look at PCI-Express soon....
mark