From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ldve5-0002hk-Hz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:04:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 524F0E0349; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f173.google.com (mail-ew0-f173.google.com [209.85.219.173]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB86DE0349 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 00:04:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so1642548ewy.34 for ; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:04:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=25SOckTVlNLvEjPbIR3JPTf7VFwvXFZkuVpPkdP+x+M=; b=kJ0738HDhp+PRchKixYLDKurnMaFjnYakC0c3bVO3iyWq7ijwUiWDYBDv466JD/ivn aDwBB+W21hMFtFBeI88+pP1tUxDWlMcoJXEguFoH3UVOMDarEkc5gxVDRgwVIwk8lxhE vxcPI5R/BUPR2z4qg77Q8DKYA1lLqPJQjc1Ns= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=BbDgH4DPN9pR2OY97/fECrhPPC6XFs/aItWZqAAdgVDUCM0RjC3V3fGOe1Zgo1+qLE uQvQIYLXtOBue/s9BdcnPAMhUZpRW1PtCu7cyG5eXNANLefdMkwGYN1uLkX6mikTfBRZ QonFobC4FI0c+1aCQfl1MEYohLyPw32T9c0tM= Received: by 10.210.59.14 with SMTP id h14mr4245826eba.16.1235952271432; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:04:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm20706598ewy.68.2009.03.01.16.04.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:04:31 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 01:04:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.28.5r4; KDE/4.2.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <87vdqtlzm2.fsf@newsguy.com> <200903012315.06929.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <87ocwkq0dy.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87ocwkq0dy.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903020104.27111.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6b82ebb7-7fac-476d-9a02-cdb3277d421f X-Archives-Hash: 4e82b9a81ab599e55b9e27efe62430bf On Montag 02 M=C3=A4rz 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > On Sonntag 01 M=C3=A4rz 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.