Dell RAM limit

[Matt Graham]

>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Keith Smith 
>> <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>> I bought a Dell Inspiron 3847 last year (i5-4460/8gb ram/1tb hd).
On 2016-03-04 12:12, Snyder, Alexander wrote:
> What kind of Motherboard do you have?  Find out what its suggested
> RAM speed/vendor(s) are ...  Also, if "Dell Says" you're limited to 
> 8GB,
> then they might have a BIOS block on it ... which can probably be 
> reset
> to default, allowing the full 32GB, if you wish.

The way to find these things out without having to power the machine 
off and peer into the innards is to run "dmidecode > boardinfo.txt" as 
root.  grep the resulting text file for "Memory" and you'll find the 
number of RAM slots and the maximum capacity of the board.  dmidecode 
should be available for every distro.

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