On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: m.roth at 5-cent.us > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memtest86+ running time > > <snip> > > 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. > > mark 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. Main reasons for choosing this board was: a) price b) 5 PCI slots - so plenty of room for adding other stuff. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts --- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5