Keith Roberts wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us >> <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. > > 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