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 1LdvFl-0007OI-1T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:39:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E90DCE029E; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C572AE029E for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3E964893 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:39:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.541 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.541 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.058, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id a-aj-O-baTph for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EA6648BE for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LdvFV-0003kz-M5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:39:09 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:39:09 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:39:09 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:38:49 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87ocwkq0dy.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87vdqtlzm2.fsf@newsguy.com> <200903012315.06929.volkerarmin@googlemail.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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yWetkPdicroWWDlAbfq/vW10uqw= Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a1d1970a-e60b-4a3c-b067-38381c6e06d5 X-Archives-Hash: baf0746ec46c78d17aa34bc05738f724 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.