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  • What Slot is my Memory in?

    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 29 13:47:37 2023
    Having put the Z620 back together I checked that the memory was in the
    tight places, it's dual Xeon with 12 memory slots and, of course, works in pairs.

    I used the sheet from HP to ID the slots and then tried to use CPUz, SIW, Speccy * Task Manager to check, they all come up with different answers!

    Incidentally none of the methods I tried nor the HP sheet seem to think
    Bargain Hardware's use of the slots was right!

    I have asked on the HP forum but does anybody know a definitive way to
    tell which slots I am using?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    640k ought to be enough for anyone.
    (Bill Gates, 1981)

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 29 15:03:07 2023
    On 29 Aug 2023 at 14:47:37 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
    wrote:


    Having put the Z620 back together I checked that the memory was in the
    tight places, it's dual Xeon with 12 memory slots and, of course, works in pairs.

    I used the sheet from HP to ID the slots and then tried to use CPUz, SIW, Speccy * Task Manager to check, they all come up with different answers!

    Incidentally none of the methods I tried nor the HP sheet seem to think Bargain Hardware's use of the slots was right!

    I have asked on the HP forum but does anybody know a definitive way to
    tell which slots I am using?

    Fill them all up?

    HPs I've worked with have (like Dells) a sticker on the inside of the
    case with slot labelling. Otherwise, just found the actual guide - which
    wasn't on the Z620 product support page, but DDG managed to index it. It
    has all the labels!

    http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/downloads/Z620_Memory_Configurations.pdf

    Cheers - Jaimie
    --
    I am always a bit unhappy when I spot a bit of text that
    made perfect sense in my brain but on passing through
    my fingers turned into a word salad suggesting that
    someone had jammed an ice pick into my head and
    stirred while I was typing. -- James Nicoll

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Vandenbergh on Wed Aug 30 08:15:13 2023
    On 29/08/2023 in message <kl6flbFjhbhU1@mid.individual.net> Jaimie
    Vandenbergh wrote:

    I have asked on the HP forum but does anybody know a definitive way to
    tell which slots I am using?

    Fill them all up?

    HPs I've worked with have (like Dells) a sticker on the inside of the
    case with slot labelling. Otherwise, just found the actual guide - which >wasn't on the Z620 product support page, but DDG managed to index it. It
    has all the labels!

    http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/downloads/Z620_Memory_Configurations.pdf

    Cheers - Jaimie

    Many thanks Jaimie :-)

    The area where the sticker was is just a few strips of glue now, I can
    print the page from the link you sent me and stick that there.

    What confused me was that CPUZ said slots 1, 8, 9 and 12 were in use when
    I had religiously followed that guide. However, CPUZ is right, with a
    strong enough magnifying glass I can just about make out the DIMM slot IDs
    and they are 1, 8, 9 and 12.

    I will work on the basis that since I have put them in the order the instructions say that must be OK, there are no warning messages.

    Thanks again!

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    How does a gender neutral bog differ from a unisex bog ?
    It has a non-binary number on the door.

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