Hello readers,

I've been struggling with a memory upgrade on our Dell R710 for a couple a days. It currently has 8GB of RAM which I want to extend more RAM.

The current memory layout in the server is as following:

DIMM_BANK_A_SLOT_1

DIMM_BANK_A_SLOT_4

DIMM_BANK_A_SLOT_7

DIMM_BANK_A_SLOT_2 - 2GB ELPIDA 2Rx8 PC3-8500 R DDR3 1066MHz ECC Registered dual rank RDIMM

DIMM_BANK_A_SLOT_5

DIMM_BANK_A_SLOT_8

DIMM_BANK_A_SLOT_3 - 2GB ELPIDA 2Rx8 PC3-8500 R DDR3 1066MHz ECC Registered dual rank RDIMM

DIMM_BANK_A_SLOT_6

DIMM_BANK_A_SLOT_9

DIMM_BANK_B_SLOT_1

DIMM_BANK_B_SLOT_4

DIMM_BANK_B_SLOT_7

DIMM_BANK_B_SLOT_2 - 2GB ELPIDA 2Rx8 PC3-8500 R DDR3 1066MHz ECC Registered dual rank RDIMM

DIMM_BANK_B_SLOT_5

DIMM_BANK_B_SLOT_8

DIMM_BANK_B_SLOT_3 - 2GB ELPIDA 2Rx8 PC3-8500 R DDR3 1066MHz ECC Registered dual rank RDIMM

DIMM_BANK_B_SLOT_6

DIMM_BANK_B_SLOT_9

I've bought 2 RDIMM's from Dell (2GB Samsung 2Rx8 PC3-10500 R RDIMM) to expand the memory. In which way will this fit into the server? With every configuration I try (it's in Advanced ECC now as stated in the BIOS) the server doesn't boot and says on the little screen the memory is wrongly installed.

I tried the optimizer layout (and changed this in the BIOS too), but still no effect!

Please help.