Memory limit on 2850?
J. Epperson
Dell at epperson.homelinux.net
Mon Nov 5 12:13:30 CST 2007
On Mon, November 5, 2007 12:26, Kurt_Olsson at dell.com wrote:
> The cause of the limitation is the Lindenhurst chipset. The chipset
> only supports 8 ranks of memory. The 4 GB memory DIMMS have density
> issues which require them to be dual ranked, thus 2 ranks per DIMM use
> all 8 ranks available to the system. You could also populate all 6 slots
> with 4x single rank DIMMs and 2x dual.
>
So I could fill the two empty slots with 4Gb and get to 16Gb? Or is it
possible that the 2Gb modules are dual rank? My Dell presales guy is
saying I have to pull the 2Gbs out and put in 4x4Gb.
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