Dell RAM limit

[Jerry Snitselaar]

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!
>>
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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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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