Am 11.11.12 20:16, schrieb Jim Klimov:
On 2012-11-11 20:00, Stephan Budach wrote:
+1 - flashing the N40L BIOS is a must. I did that on three units myself
and it was really easy using a USB thumb drive. I also just crammed 16
GB of RAM into my unit at home, which really made a big difference,
since I am also running Vbox on it. :)
Ah-hah! So it is possible! (I asked a few times with vague results)
What models of RAM did you use, and approximately what was the cost?
Is it worth it in your opinion? ;)
Did the HP BIOS complain about component compatibility or try to
refuse to accept some details? (I saw other HP servers do that)
Thanks,
//Jim
Hi Jim,
yes it's possible and after searching and comparing (and even had one
shot into the foot as well) I finally figured that the HP would run with
PC1333 organized in 512Mx8. I paid € 107,- (VAT incl.) für both modules.
At first my box would only recognize 8GB when I put both modules in, and
I was only able to get it to run using one 8 GB and one of the remaining
4 GB modules, which accounted for 12 G in total. After hitting Google
pretty hard, I checked in with the BIOS of my N40L and just tried out of
curiosity to disable parity-checking in the Southbridge menu of the
modded BIOS, which suddenly seemed to turn on the second 8 GB module…
really weird. I am suspecting the BIOS to not perform a full discovery
when I inserted the two 8 GB modules, but the 16 GB have been consistent
available throughout 10 reboots, so I deemd them to operate.
As for the specs of the RAM modules I purchased, I can provide the
information from the Sticker, that has been put on, hopefully you can
get something from it - I also could ask my dealer what he exactly
ordered from his distributor:
CSX:
8 GB DDR3 1333MHz
512x8 Long DIMM ECC
AP_ECC1333D3_8G
XECC-D3-1333-512X8-8GB
As I said, I think that the chip layout 512x8 is key here.
And yes… I do think that it is really worth it - running 3 VMs on the
N40L really hits hard on the memory and with that more GB to spend my
VMs really run much better (system load has increased, which is often a
good sign in that regard) - after all I do have 9 GBs left where ZFS can
operate on.
So, my N40L is now quite beefed up, without going too crazy… ;)
Cheers,
budy
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