Re: memory question

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah Roberto is correct here, finding NON IBM memory with CENTAUR 
controllers is going to be, um, 'rather difficult'.  :-)

With Power7 machines there were some that likely worked because those 
were much more standard than Power8. However as previously stated IBM 
won't fix a machine with NON IBM Memory in it if they even catch a whiff 
of memory being the problem.

NOT worth the price difference IMHO.

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On 5/2/2017 4:20 PM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:
> Tim,
> I'm very certain that Crucial (not Crutial) is not the kind of memory you
> need. Depending on the age of the machine you are trying to upgrade you
> need specific generations of memory which have specific data in their VPD,
> non-IBM memory doesn't have that data and usually doesn't work (The Service
> Processor or other part of the fw tells you the memory is not for the
> machine): I haven't even tried to use oem memory on a POWER server but had
> issues with p series memory on i series servers back when they had
> different CCINs.
> Also, if you are using a POWER8 I would like to see where you find OEM
> memory dimms with CENTAUR controllers...
> Roberto