I am hoping someone can help me out with a memory upgrade issue I am having with a Dell Poweredge T110 server running Win Server 2008 64 bit.
I am attempting to upgrade the RAM from 8GB to the 16GB max the spec says the server can take. I am using 4 x 4gb Micron PC3-10600 DDR3-1333MHz ECC Unbuffered (part# MT18JSF51272AZ-1G4D1ZE). I checked for compatibility prior to purchase and these sticks were shown to be compatible.
Once installed, the bios recognizes the full 16GB on reboot, however once I log in Windows tells me that while I have 16GB, only 8GB is “usable”. Also when looking at the memory performance in Resource Monitor, 8192 MB is shown as being hardware reserved.
Help! I have tried a number of solutions to try to fix this including updating the bios, turning off maximum memory in msconfig and turning off power save options in windows and in the bios. Nothing seems to get the system to let me use this memory.
Does anyone have any suggestions for any steps I have not tried yet? Thanks!