On Mon, August 28, 2006 18:40, Niklaus wrote: > Hi, > > I have access to a remote linux machine. I have a root account on it. > I need to know whether the installed RAM is SDRAM or DDRAM. > Unfortunately i will be going to the site next month when i have to > upgrade the machine with more capacity. Few of them are hardware > related but if you know the answer please help me. > > 1) How do i find out when the machine is online , if it is SDRAM or > DDRAM. I tried dmidecode utility but i was not sure about the type. > Can someone help me out by pasting the output for both DDR and SDRAM > in dmidecode or similar. > Can't help you with this one, sorry.... > 2) Can both SDRAM and DDRAM be present at a time in the same > motherboard. I mean can i have 256MB of SDRAM chip and a 256 MB of > DDRAM on the same motherboard. > > If yes what are the conditions. > Most motherboards are designed for one type of RAM, those few who can use both can, as far as I have seen, just use one type at a time. > > 3) Is a motherboard designed for only one type of RAM , like if we > remove all the SDRAMs can we put DDR in it or it is either designed > for DDR or SDRAM. > As I said, most motherboards have just one type of RAM-slot... > Regards > Nik > Sturla
