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I'm working on an ES40 that has three sets of memory installed as follows - Array 0 (4Gb), Array 1 (1Gb) and Array 3 (1Gb).

In my opinion Array 3 should have been installed in Array 2 as per the guidelines to install sets sequentially.

Questions are:-

1) What are the implications of the "gap" in memory?

2) Would one expect a config error to be reported by the ES40 - I'd say possibly an RMC error 80 on power up.

Dodge

Hi Dodge,
You assume correctly. Memory should be configured Array0, then 1, then 2 etc. However I tried putting in memory in an ES40, alongggg time ago, by missing out some of the arrays inbetween & you DO NOT get memory configuration errors as long as you have it correctly configured in the arrays. The problem is, is that this is not a supported configuration, so if it works, fine(sort of ) but it could start causing memory problems with the OS running or cause problems if you are trying to troubleshoot memory problems because it is not configured correctly in the first place!
I would strongly suggest that you configure it correctly as soon as is practically possible.
If in doubt consult the "idiots" guide under the cpu/memory lid and/or the ES40 service guide
HERE
for the full memory configuration guidelines/info/etc...
Regards,
MEA[T]

This message has been edited. Last edited by: MEA(T) Cleaver,

Cheers Mea(T),

I reconfig'ed the memory as per the guidelines. A further upshot was that I found the mixing of DIMM types in one of the arrays in said machine which I sorted as well.

Bit of a mess really.

Dodge

Hi Dodger,
Glad to help , thanks for the update.
Note, it is not advised to mix different manufactures memory even if they are "the same" in a set/array. It is still OK to use third party memory, just don't mix it.
Regards,
MEA[T]