On 09/18/2017 07:19 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 09/18/2017 02:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2017-09-18 15:56, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
but...
my intel based mb specifys 24gig ram but I have 32 and from two different specs. this boundary spec is not always updated when motherboards/bioses receive changes. you could *try* more ram No, I remember the specs, max is 8. you misunderstand. the "specs" are not always correct for your mb, usually the max which matches all, not necessarily the max for you mb.
* Carlos E. R. <> [09-18-17 09:49]: try more, it will complain or fault if not usable. try more ram. The specs of my mb specify 8 MiB. I'm not going to spend the money on more with a 95% chance of wasting it.
If I had it on a drawer, I'd try.
There is a company called Crucial.com in the US that sells memory. Long ago I called them asking how much upgrade to the ram i could get a machine. They started out saying Officially you can get XXX. I asked what do you mean Officially. They said that is all the motherboard manufacture said it would take. But we will sell you XXX+yyy and we will guarentee it will work or your money back for the yyy part. It worked.
They won't always do this. Some mother boards will and some won't take more.
This is correct. I have an old Dell laptop--Inspiron E1505--that Dell said only can use 2 GiB. But you can put 4 gig in it, and when you do, it will only use 3.2. That's an improvement, of course, but apparently the mobo is hard-wired so as not to be able to use the entire 4. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org