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rbxlio

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May 20th, 2019 15:00

DellPrecision T5600 bad memory report

Hello

I've a strange behavior of my station.

2 x E5-2640

4 x 8 GB

Bios A18

 

4 memories are installed ( 4 x 8 GB)

Only 24 GB is seen but fourth stick is seen as 0 GB ( CPU 2)

Another slot is reported 0 GB but nothing is plugged on it.

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I've taken off all CPU 2 memories : still reported 0 GB on DIMM2_CPU2 and DIMM4_CPU2

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Is someone have an idea ?

 

thanks

 

  • bmcowboy

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    Posted May 31st, 2019 11:00

    Hi @rbxlio ,

    Check out page 8 of T5600 Technical Guidebook and see how memory be sitting correctly. 4x8GB RAM could only works with a single CPU.

     

  • rbxlio

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    Posted June 1st, 2019 05:00

    Hello bmcowboy

     

    thanks to your interest for my anwser.

    I think you don't understand the issue.

    You've made a mistake with your anwser : 4 memories sticks work well with 2 cpu, even 2 memories sticks.

    Let us suppose that you say the truth, why computer report 0 GB ?

    That is my question.

    It's first time i'm seeing this  

    whether or not I put the memory in slot 2 or 4 of CPU 2, that report 0 GB.

     

    regards

  • joeyyoung

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    Posted January 18th, 2020 19:00

    I am also experiencing this issue. I had my T5610 with A06 BIOS with 128GB of Dell approved memory. All was good until I updated to A19 BIOS in December 2019. Only 64GB of the memory is now showing up and CPU2 memory is also not showing up. This memory has been thoroughly tested via MemTest86 and all works fine. Its the motherboard BIOS. I also attempted to downgrade to various previous BIOS revisions but the problem will not correct itself. I also refreshed the CMOS battery thinking maybe that was it but memory still won't popululate in BIOS nor Windows 10 PRO OS.

    I have 8x 16GB ECC Dell 14600 Hynix certified memory modules. All was working great for years until I updated to A19 BIOS. Dell....you have a problem with you BIOS.

    Please respond -

    @rbxlio 

  • Igentin

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    Posted March 14th, 2020 14:00

    I have the same problem with my T5610.

    If you find a solution please share.

  • joeyyoung

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    Posted April 10th, 2020 18:00

    I have this EXACT problem. I was on A06 with 128GB of Memory working perfectly then updated to A19 and now it only shows 64GB of memory. All Dell Certified memory from Dell. Was working perfectly for a couple years until we updated.

    Dell - Please fix this!

  • PabloGuzmanG

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    Posted May 27th, 2020 11:00

    I have the same problem on the same DIMMs, could someone fix it?

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    Posted December 2nd, 2020 09:00

    Same problem here: Dell T5610 updated to BIOS A19 and BOOM, CPU2 memory is no longer recognized and machine wont boot anymore. Dell, maybe release BIOS A20 to fix this?

  • Clintlgm

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    Posted December 2nd, 2020 15:00

    You all probably need to go direct to Dell Business support. It's looking pretty obvious that the Update is causing this Perhaps you can. Ok, I'm assuming you all are talking about a BIOS update that has caused this. If so you should be able to download the previous BIOS Upgrade and Install it that should fix the Issue?

    I'm not exactly sure about your models but on mine, in the BIOS itself, there is a Feature to install an older BIOS.

     

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    Posted December 3rd, 2020 15:00

    Well, machine was no longer under warranty and we actually weren't entirely certain what was causing this: It is clearly related to the BIOS update, but it is equally clear that not all T5610 users have this problem, else this post would have gotten much more attention. So, maybe it is related to the BIOS version we upgraded from?

    In any case, we finally managed to get the T5610 to recognize CPU2 memory by downgrading to lower version BIOS's and then step wise upgrading to A19 again. (I cant tell you precisely when it started working as we down/upgraded the BIOS using one CPU, and only every now then we re-installed the 2nd CPU to see whether it was working again... but in the end it worked).

    We do still have the Reliable Memory Technology error notifications on boot, with the RMT logs showing..

      Dimm string 9     Dimm slot 9 empty 
      Dimm string 10   Dimm slot 10 empty
      Dimm string 11   Dimm slot 11 empty
      Dimm string 12   Dimm slot 12 empty

    ..which makes no sense to me, but after swapping memory with another machine and no memory diagnostics being able to find a single bit error (no pun intended), we just switched off RMT in the BIOS and now the machine works like a charm again.

  • ejk0005d

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    Posted June 15th, 2021 20:00

    I think most of us got this. Went from A16 to A19 and bam - half my memory gone. 

    I've tried going down versions of the bios - but its just undetected. Even tried removing the processor and re-adding it to trigger the bios to pick up the memory.