[rescue] Memory upgrade in Dell PowerEdge 2560

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

I would suggest putting in the minimum memory you can, running memtest on
that.  Then swap out, 1 by 1, each DIMM and see if you get
failure/success.  It could even be that a certain memory slot has failed.

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Raymond Wiker <rwiker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've actually had problems with memory that was too fast for the
> computer... does the memory match the stated requirements?
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'd agree, but I am assuming that all sticks of memory are identically
> > marked.
> > That some work, some do not argues against a compatibility issue and
> > instead
> > for failed pieces of memory, at least to me it does.
> >
> > Lionel
> >
> > On May 27, 2015, at 12:40 AM, Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee> wrote:
> >
> > >> The Centos 6.6 install CD has memtest86+ on it.  I ran it, with the
> > >> "good" 2gb, and it doesn't get very far before it hangs...... no
> further
> > >> progress, no keyboard response.  The Wikipedia article mentions that
> > >> hangs can be caused by CPU and motherboard issues. However, I would
> > >> think if that were my situation all 8 sticks would behave the same
> way,
> > >> but the other seven don't get that far.  Centos 6.6 boots and runs
> fine
> > >> as far as I can tell.
> > >
> > > To me, it sounds like a compatibility problem...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Meelis Roos (mroos at linux.ee)
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