[gentoo-user] [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos

[gentoo-user] [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos

[Harry Putnam]

Anyone know if the ram sticks installed in one mobo can be tracked to
see what other mobo's it will work in.

I'm thinking switching out a mobo and hate to loose the 3GB ram
installed in it.  I don't have the spec to hand due to one machine
being shut down but do have record of it on that machine when I boot
it.

You'd think some kind of cross reference like that would be around
since ram is one of the more expensive parts of a setup.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sonntag 01 März 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Anyone know if the ram sticks installed in one mobo can be tracked to
> see what other mobo's it will work in.
>
> I'm thinking switching out a mobo and hate to loose the 3GB ram
> installed in it.  I don't have the spec to hand due to one machine
> being shut down but do have record of it on that machine when I boot
> it.
>
> You'd think some kind of cross reference like that would be around
> since ram is one of the more expensive parts of a setup.

a) vendors website
b) vendors website
c) modprobe i2c-dev, eeprom, ./decode-dimms.pl

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos

[Harry Putnam]

Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> writes:

> On Sonntag 01 März 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Anyone know if the ram sticks installed in one mobo can be tracked to
>> see what other mobo's it will work in.
>>
>> I'm thinking switching out a mobo and hate to loose the 3GB ram
>> installed in it.  I don't have the spec to hand due to one machine
>> being shut down but do have record of it on that machine when I boot
>> it.
>>
>> You'd think some kind of cross reference like that would be around
>> since ram is one of the more expensive parts of a setup.
>

> a) vendors website
> b) vendors website

So, are you thinking the vendor website will have some kind of cross
reference showing all the motherboards a particular stick of ram will
work on?   I'm not finding anything like that, of course had prowled
the vendors website before posting (http://www.corsair.com/)

> c) modprobe i2c-dev, eeprom, ./decode-dimms.pl

This will require a recompile.  And in fact the memory sticks on a
solaris OS, so not useful there anyway.  But useful on my linux
boxes.   thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Montag 02 März 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> writes:
> > On Sonntag 01 März 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> Anyone know if the ram sticks installed in one mobo can be tracked to
> >> see what other mobo's it will work in.
> >>
> >> I'm thinking switching out a mobo and hate to loose the 3GB ram
> >> installed in it.  I don't have the spec to hand due to one machine
> >> being shut down but do have record of it on that machine when I boot
> >> it.
> >>
> >> You'd think some kind of cross reference like that would be around
> >> since ram is one of the more expensive parts of a setup.
> >
> > a) vendors website
> > b) vendors website
>
> So, are you thinking the vendor website will have some kind of cross
> reference showing all the motherboards a particular stick of ram will
> work on?   I'm not finding anything like that, of course had prowled
> the vendors website before posting (http://www.corsair.com/)
>
> > c) modprobe i2c-dev, eeprom, ./decode-dimms.pl
>
> This will require a recompile.  And in fact the memory sticks on a
> solaris OS, so not useful there anyway.  But useful on my linux
> boxes.   thanks.

no, just a make modules_install.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Anyone know if the ram sticks installed in one mobo can be tracked to
> see what other mobo's it will work in.
> 
> I'm thinking switching out a mobo and hate to loose the 3GB ram
> installed in it.  I don't have the spec to hand due to one machine
> being shut down but do have record of it on that machine when I boot
> it.
> 
> You'd think some kind of cross reference like that would be around
> since ram is one of the more expensive parts of a setup.

If it's the same type of RAM, it should work just fine.