I recently upgraded the ram in my PowerEdge T20 32 GB of ECC RAM.
With the stick that the server came with (4GB) the system is completely stable, but after installing the ram, I see frequent system reboots. The reboots happen with FreeNAS as well as a few other linux distros that I have tried.
I tried each ram stick individually in the hopes to isolate one and the reboots happen with all of the new sticks. With the old stick, the system is completely stable.
The reboots can happen when I am doing anything, but happen very frequently when performing any sort of sustained disk IO (I can't copy more than 20GB of data on the internal drives without the system rebooting).
The ram seems compatible as everything is detected as expected. I also ram memtest for 10+ hours multiple times and everytime no error is reported.
Thoughts on what to try next? I suspect that the ram is bad or not compatible with my old version of bios firmware (A6).
Could the timings of the new ram be the cause? I am not mixing old and new ram, it is all new so they all have the same timings. I can't see any differences other than timings and capacity between the new old sticks. Both old and new are UnBuffered ECC 12800 ram.
What can I do to fix the issue?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
With the stick that the server came with (4GB) the system is completely stable, but after installing the ram, I see frequent system reboots. The reboots happen with FreeNAS as well as a few other linux distros that I have tried.
I tried each ram stick individually in the hopes to isolate one and the reboots happen with all of the new sticks. With the old stick, the system is completely stable.
The reboots can happen when I am doing anything, but happen very frequently when performing any sort of sustained disk IO (I can't copy more than 20GB of data on the internal drives without the system rebooting).
The ram seems compatible as everything is detected as expected. I also ram memtest for 10+ hours multiple times and everytime no error is reported.
Thoughts on what to try next? I suspect that the ram is bad or not compatible with my old version of bios firmware (A6).
Could the timings of the new ram be the cause? I am not mixing old and new ram, it is all new so they all have the same timings. I can't see any differences other than timings and capacity between the new old sticks. Both old and new are UnBuffered ECC 12800 ram.
What can I do to fix the issue?
Any help would be greatly appreciated