http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Identifying_RAM Identifying RAM - Revision history 2026-04-21T15:40:22Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.35.1 http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Identifying_RAM&diff=54574&oldid=prev Paulm at 19:18, 1 February 2011 2011-02-01T19:18:34Z <p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left diff-editfont-monospace" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:18, 1 February 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recipe for identifying RAM. Uses dmidecode a utility that reads the DMI table (a.k.a. bios settings)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recipe for identifying RAM. Uses dmidecode a utility that reads the DMI table (a.k.a. bios settings)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;code&gt;sudo dmidecode -t 17 | grep -e &#039;Type: DDR2\?3\?\|Speed: [^(Unknown)]&#039; | sort | uniq&lt;/code&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;code&gt;sudo dmidecode -t 17 | grep -e &#039;Type: DDR2\?3\?\|Speed: [^(Unknown)]&#039; | sort | uniq  </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/code&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>(This comes <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">form </del>one of the build instructors who says: &amp;ldquo;I&#039;m pretty sure it won&#039;t report the actual speed of RAM, and instead the speed supported by the DIMM, so we&#039;ll still probably have to keep an eye out for RAM faster than what the computer supports.&amp;rdquo;)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>(This comes <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">from </ins>one of the build instructors who says: &amp;ldquo;I&#039;m pretty sure it won&#039;t report the actual speed of RAM, and instead the speed supported by the DIMM, so we&#039;ll still probably have to keep an eye out for RAM faster than what the computer supports.&amp;rdquo;)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[category:Tech support]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[category:Tech support]]</div></td></tr> </table> Paulm http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Identifying_RAM&diff=54573&oldid=prev Paulm: New page: Recipe for identifying RAM. Uses dmidecode a utility that reads the DMI table (a.k.a. bios settings) <code>sudo dmidecode -t 17 | grep -e 'Type: DDR2\?3\?\|Speed: [^(Unknown)]' | sort | u... 2011-02-01T19:16:56Z <p>New page: Recipe for identifying RAM. Uses dmidecode a utility that reads the DMI table (a.k.a. bios settings) &lt;code&gt;sudo dmidecode -t 17 | grep -e &#039;Type: DDR2\?3\?\|Speed: [^(Unknown)]&#039; | sort | u...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Recipe for identifying RAM. Uses dmidecode a utility that reads the DMI table (a.k.a. bios settings)<br /> <br /> &lt;code&gt;sudo dmidecode -t 17 | grep -e &#039;Type: DDR2\?3\?\|Speed: [^(Unknown)]&#039; | sort | uniq&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> (This comes form one of the build instructors who says: &amp;ldquo;I&#039;m pretty sure it won&#039;t report the actual speed of RAM, and instead the speed supported by the DIMM, so we&#039;ll still probably have to keep an eye out for RAM faster than what the computer supports.&amp;rdquo;)<br /> <br /> <br /> [[category:Tech support]]</div> Paulm