[TriLUG] Memory upgrade problems - brainstorming

Scott Lambdin lopaki at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 12:38:52 EDT 2014


these don't match?

DDR3 PC3-10600, DDR3 PC3-12800, DDR3 (non-ECC)

I purchased four DDR3 PC3-1600 -- 4Gb modules


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Steve Holton <sph0lt0n at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But I wasn't expecting BIOS failures on every module. The system boots as
> > before with the original modules in place, but adding any one (or pair)
> of
>
> Maybe the BIOS does not recognize the newer memory modules. It reads
> the SPD eeprom from each module to identify what they are, and it may
> be trying to look them up in a hardcoded table. Make sure that you
> have the latest BIOS version for your motherboard.
>
> Bill
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