Dell RAM limit

[Snyder, Alexander]

LOL, that's brutal.  I've never heard of that program.  Awesome!

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On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> 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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