1855 won't see a full 16GB of RAM

[Kuba Ober]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Nathan Hruby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any tips/gotcha's about putting the full 16GB
> compliemnt of RAM into a PE 1855? I have 3 of them and have identical
> 3rd party 4GB RAM sticks for each.   Of the 3:
> - One is happy with the full 16GB
> - One won't post, just emits a S-O-S type beep
> - One tells me I've mixed up the ranking of the pairs
>
> Flashing the BIOS and BMC doesn't seem to help, so either I'm missing
> something very obvious or 2 of these boxes are horked.

I'd say that unless your RAMs are noncompliant with whatever spec DELL assumes 
they should comply with, yes, your 2 boxes are horked.

Before condemning them, try with a set of sticks from Dell.

Cheers, Kuba