From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 18:03:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34DD816A420 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:03:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F384143D7B for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:03:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 95514 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Jan 2006 18:03:32 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=IAfmwh8MFd16GraAmgWTMGkHcn0ZyVDhBeVCGfgvOKjem1VxUXVcfY4SszFY75cGVlGGSRMxDJ5SYv/jek/i89NDEmwJxFlr5gDRzkOWVdi0vK+X8y1Y8aQ6eDP9RkfdrNsvvbrx3LQWQLj3Ql2/4l2D5f0Fz3gHfucXJJKRZ00= ; Message-ID: <20060106180332.95512.qmail@web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.46.186.215] by web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:03:32 PST Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:03:32 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom To: Bruce MacDonald , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5daaa27b0601060901w6ef802ceg5d2ac27f6b315b17@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: How to find out my systems DDR RAM speed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:03:55 -0000 Why not just bring an assortment of RAM when you visit, which you'll likely have to do to install it. Its a lot cheaper than the alternatives. --- Bruce MacDonald wrote: > 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 run > more slowly. Also, I really dislike mixing RAM > types on a single board, but > 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 > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- Holtor 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com