Crashing with Dell
Jonathan Saylor
jvsaylor at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 23:00:08 UTC 2005
Dennis,
I would contact the mobo manufacture and ask them what memory
modules have they qualified for that motherboard. Lets say the maker
has only qualified Kingston PC2700 < 2GB modules (usually its 3-4
brands and 2-3 speeds), Dell just says PC2700 RAM <2GB modules will work
period. Dell's response is RAM is RAM (at least that's the response we
got). I work in a strange enviroment as it is so I know how untrue that
really is. I would try to make sure you dont have a bug/leak first, but
its something I've learned about Dell and I thought you might like to know.
Jon
Dennis_Drescher at sil.org wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:36:12 -0500
>>From: Jonathan Saylor <jvsaylor at gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: Crashing with Dell
>>
>>Dennis,
>>
>> I don't know about the Precision 330 and Latitude D610 however my
>>partner at work has a Dell Insperion 1100 and was having it lock up on
>>without any consistancy as to when and why nearly identical to what you
>>are experiancing. We have found that in the Insperion 1100 they used
>>"non-qualified" RAM for those motherboards (2 128MB sticks). Intel
>>qualifies RAM for thier motherboards for a reason, Dell has a habbit of
>>ignoring it. He replaced the RAM with what is qualified by INTEL for
>>that motherboard and the problem has gone away. Now note, this RAM
>>worked perfectly fine in Windows and in other linux distros without
>>fail. Ubuntu isn't the only distro he had THIS problem with just not
>>
>>
>all.
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>
>>Jon
>>
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>>
>
>Thanks Jon for the tip on the memory. I hope your wrong but it could be. I
>still need to try SSHing into it to see if it is actually locked up hard
>or not. Then I need try the "breezy" kernel. In the Precision 330 I'm
>using two matched 512 MB RAM bus memory sticks. It is what Dell
>recommended but as you pointed out, they may have recommended the wrong
>thing. We'll see...
>
>Dennis
>
>
>
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