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From: Ben Myers on 14 Jan 2010 09:54
Father Justin wrote:
> On 1/13/10 6:40 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
>> Father Justin wrote:
>>> On 1/12/10 2:48 PM, Christopher Muto wrote:
>>>> knownchild wrote:
>>>>> i have 2 completely identical ddr2 sticks except from different
>>>>> manufactures and one is double sided while the other is single sided
>>>>> but
>>>>> there both 1gb and the same exact speed's. They both work fine by
>>>>> their
>>>>> selves, both slots are working and the bios detects both 1gb sticks
>>>>> however only 1 is installed according to bios v 1.1.11; i spoke with
>>>>> dell and they told me to try resetting the cmos so i did; still it
>>>>> does
>>>>> the same so they said they would replace the cmos chip since i am
>>>>> still
>>>>> under warranty. I have been building/fixing PC's for some time now and
>>>>> have never seen a PC so picky about ram. this is why i don't buy
>>>>> dell it
>>>>> all proprietary BS, good thing its just a work PC. :p
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> fwiw i received multiple optiplex 320 in the same shipment and also had
>>>> ram problems. this was nearly two years ago and the machines came
>>>> with a
>>>> single 1gb and i planed on taking some of the 1gb out of some
>>>> machine to
>>>> double up in the others and then put a single 2gb purchased separately
>>>> in the others. most of the machines refused to recognize the memory
>>>> form
>>>> the other systems. we are talking about the exact same chip from the
>>>> same dell production run. i recall speaking to dell about it and they
>>>> didn't have a solution. they wanted to send me more ram and quite
>>>> frankly i wasn't up to the wait and likely disappointment. the 320
>>>> definitely has problem with its memory. don't know if it is a physical
>>>> problem or a bios issue. would have thought that in two years more
>>>> complaints would have surfaced but you don't hear much about it. good
>>>> luck in sorting out your problem.
>>>
>>> Sounds like you didn't know how to properly install the RAM.
>>> Sometimes you have to go into the bios and tell it it has more RAM. Or
>>> just let the Lord take care of it and hope for the best.
>>> Then there's latency. Some boards only accept sticks with a certain
>>> range in latency - too high or too low and it won't recognize it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> "Sometimes you have to go into the bios and tell it it has more RAM."
>> What? On which systems? Not on any recent Dells... Ben Myers
>
> I've seen it. It wouldn't surprise me of Dell regressed back into the
> days of manually setting clock multipliers.
>
>

Would you like to break with precedent and state some real facts, like
exactly which Dell BIOSes require the user to tell the BIOS the system
has more RAM? Or we could simply keep dealing with innuendo and vague
claims... Ben Myers
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