LOL, that's brutal. I've never heard of that program. Awesome! -- Thanks, --:: Alexander J. Snyder ::-- --:: ThisGuyShouldWorkFor.Us ::-- --:: "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 > 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 >