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If memory is of the correct type (ECC Registered), correct frequency (333Mhz) and even the same chipset, it seems to me to be incredibly sloppy motherboard design if it STILL won't work.
Welcome to the world. It's nice here, you'll like it. There's so much variety of mediocrity -- you'll never EVER be bored! More seriously, I've tried about a half dozen varieties of random people's PC2700 modules in my S2885 and they _all_ work fine. While it's always possible your memory mfr had problems with their boards (there are a good handful of layers there), I've found the "memory:motherboard problem" to be mostly a thing of the past. That said, since it's sortof related, I did notice that switching to the new BIOS (which seems to call itself 0.01a, not the 1.01a one might think is more natural) DID cause the Tigon3 driver to become unstable and hard hang the system (no oops, no nothing, just frozen board) when heavy disk (3ware 8506) and network were simultaneous. At least, I'm blaming the tigon3 driver 'cause when I switched to the bcm570x driver instead, all the problems went away and I have been rock solid with a 2GB "memory hole," compiling cross-toolchains and pushing gigs around the net all day yesterday. Anybody tried 2.6.0 yet? -mcq