[rescue] Memory upgrade in Dell PowerEdge 2560

Chad Fernandez chad.fernandez at att.net
Sun May 24 19:17:42 CDT 2015


On 05/24/2015 08:04 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Are you certain you have the second rev of the MB? That it runs with PC2100
> ram may not be 'proof' that the board is 2nd rev and can support 2 gig RAM.
>
> http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/t/19505529
>
> I'd put in the original PC2100 memory and see what the system BIOS reports as
> the speed of the memory. If it reports 266 MHz you may have the later rev
> board, if it reports something slower (200 MHz?) you may have a first rev MB.

I found that thread too.  I don't see any report on the memory speed 
while booting, or the bios setup, just a 533mhz bus speed.  I thought 
that confirmed it, but maybe not.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA


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