Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:01:04 -0800 From: Bruce MacDonald <brumac@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find out my systems DDR RAM speed? Message-ID: <5daaa27b0601060901w6ef802ceg5d2ac27f6b315b17@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060106164708.50511.qmail@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060106161802.66399.qmail@web31704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060106164708.50511.qmail@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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BIOS screens and RAM chips are tough to see from a distance :) The program memtest86+ http://www.memtest.org/ shows the information you seek. Unfortunately, as far as I know, it must be run from a boot disk, though since it is open source, it perhaps could be modified to run under FreeBSD. Also, I may be wrong about this, but I think that if your current system requires slower DDR333 RAM, then putting in DDR400 may cause problems. OTOH, if it can handle faster DDR400, then it could also use DDR333, but ru= n more slowly. Also, I really dislike mixing RAM types on a single board, bu= t people tell me that on modern mobos, that is not such a big deal as it once was. Regards, --Vorpal On 1/6/06, Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > --- Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE on a remotely > > hosted server and I'd like to find out the DDR > > speed > > of the RAM chips installed so I can order the > > proper ones for an upgrade. I know it's either > > DDR333 or DDR400 so I assume I can just order > > DDR400 to be safe but.. > > Its usually displayed by the bios at boot time. > Its also labeled on the ram itself if your system > isn't hermetically sealed. > > DT > >
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