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 1Le6QV-0006Jh-N7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:35:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67592E0327; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C0BE0327 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF053645DB for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:35:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.435 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.435 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.164, 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 ZPgPB8xNpcTH for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:35:07 +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 37B046457F for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Le6QI-0003Qe-Hy for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:35:02 +0000 Received: from athedsl-50911.home.otenet.gr ([87.203.176.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:35:02 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-50911.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:35:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT hardware ?] Can ram spec be tracked to different mobos Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:30:52 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <87vdqtlzm2.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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-50911.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090215) In-Reply-To: <87vdqtlzm2.fsf@newsguy.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 4581fa4f-121a-4eae-9ef2-c2f11c3c3d4f X-Archives-Hash: e5bfe836e9c24b8feb1ac2a9d5874150 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.