Need some clarification on suitable ram for DELL poweredge SC440

scampy_008

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Heres the problems.

A client of mine has one of these which I beilieve is a basic one socket server tower. He currently has 2GBs of ram installed and he wants to upgrade to 4GBs.

His current configuration of ram is 4 x 512mb 1Rx8 PC2-5300E-555-12, Model Number Hynix HYMP564U72CP8-Y5

I sent him some 4 X 1GB 1Rx4 PC2-5300P-555-12, Model Number Hynix HYMP512P72CP4-Y5

Result, No Post no Boot.

Ive tried to do some research into this but the information is conflicting.

According to the spec sheet from dell this thing can take

"Four ECC DDR-2 533/667 SDRAM DIMM sockets for up to 4 GB of memory"


As far as I am aware this is "ECC" ram.


I am missing something here, is the difference between PC2-5000E and PC2-5300P??


According to my research I did find something about registered and unregisted. I thought all ECC ram was in fact registered.


Can I have some clarification or advise on the issue please!!!
 

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Thanks for that but I really wanna try and figure out why the memory I have is not working on this machines. Its definately ECC unbuffered ram, in theory it should work.

Im hoping someone can explain it to me
 

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Ok Guys forgot to reply.

I know theres a bif difference in ECC, 2 type ECC Registered and ECC unbuffered. they are not compatible and interchangable with one another.

Also most systems that will accept ECC Unbuffered Ram usually 95% of the time accept NON ECC ram, which is easier to find and much cheaper then ECC unbuffered definately in terms of DDR1

Thanks!