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

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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.