Memory limit on 2850?

[Jeff Larsen]

On 11/5/07, J. Epperson <Dell at epperson.homelinux.net> wrote:
> 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.

If you look up your original system config on the support site, it may
tell you if your existing chips are single or dual rank. Or you may
have to open it up and check the part numbers. If they are single
rank, then yes, you can add 2x4GB dual rank.