On Fri Mar 04 16, Keith Smith wrote: > >It is ridiculous. In opening the box I find only one PCI slot. The >addition of a second hard drive made the box sound like it was a drum >set. I think the cable was pressed against the side of the case and >every time the drive head moved it caused the vibration to vibrate the >case. These really are consumer grade products. Dell builds quality >stuff... they just hamstring it. Oh and I forgot these boxes will >only drive 1 video. If you want to drive more than one you need to >add an add on video card. > >Next go around I will be building my own. That unfortunately will be >many years from now since I have a newer equipment. > >Thank you all for your input!! > > > >On 2016-03-04 12:25, Snyder, Alexander wrote: >>LOL, that's brutal. I've never heard of that program. Awesome! >> >>-- >>Thanks, >>--:: Alexander J. Snyder ::-- >>--:: ThisGuyShouldWorkFor.Us [1] ::-- >>--:: "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. --Steve >>Wozniak" ::-- >>-- >> >>On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Matt Graham >>wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Keith Smith >>> 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. >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress [2] >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [3] >> >> >>Links: >>------ >>[1] http://thisguyshouldworkfor.us >>[2] http://crow202.org/wordpress >>[3] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >-- >Keith Smith >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Another useful tool is lshw. The following manual from Dell: https://goo.gl/S5dF7P Memory Connector Two internally-accessible DDR3 DIMM sockets Type DDR3 Speed 1600 MHz Configurations supported 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 12 GB, and 16 GB --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss