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Dell PowerEdge C4130 Owner's Manual

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General memory module installation guidelines

NOTE: Memory configurations that fail to observe these guidelines can prevent your system from booting, stopped responding during memory configuration, or operating with reduced memory.

The system supports Flexible Memory Configuration, enabling the system to be configured and run in any valid chipset architectural configuration. The following are the recommended guidelines for installing memory modules:
  • x4 and x8 DRAM based memory modules can be mixed. For more information, see the Mode-specific guidelines section.
  • Up to two dual or single-rank RDIMMs can be populated per channel.
  • Populate memory module sockets only if a processor is installed. For single-processor systems, sockets A1 to A8 are available. For dual-processor systems, sockets A1 to A8 and sockets B1 to B8 are available.
  • Populate all the sockets with white release tabs first and then the black release tabs.
  • Populate the sockets by the highest rank count, in the following order—first in sockets with white release tabs and then with the black release tabs. For example, if you want to mix single-rank and dual-rank memory modules, populate dual-rank memory modules in the sockets with white release tabs and single-rank memory modules in the sockets with black release tabs.
  • When mixing memory modules with different capacities, populate the sockets with memory modules with highest capacity first. For example, if you want to mix 4 GB and 8 GB memory modules, populate 8 GB memory modules in the sockets with white release tabs and 4 GB memory modules in the sockets with black release tabs.
  • In a dual-processor configuration, the memory configuration for each processor should be identical. For example, if you populate socket A1 for processor 1, then populate socket B1 for processor 2, and so on.
  • Memory modules of different capacities can be mixed provided other memory population rules are followed (for example, 4 GB and 8 GB memory modules can be mixed).
  • Mixing of more than two memory module capacities in a system is not supported.
  • Mixing LRDIMMs and RDIMMs is not supported.
  • Populate four memory modules per processor (one DIMM per channel) at a time to maximize performance.

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