More power!

During testing I really quickly found that the default 2GB RAM are way too less for me. So I decided to buy new memory, but of course not the way too expensive DELL OEM parts, but freaky Kingston RAM.

I knew that it would be hard to find the matching technology, bus speed, latency, module size and whatsoever. But I didn't expect it to be *so* hard.
I bought 8GB Kingston RAM over eBay and frenetically inserted the two modules into the slots, powered on the machine, and waited. Ten, twenty, thirty seconds - nothing happened except for the fan speeding up, down, and up again.

Looking into the hardware guide *again*, I found that there are some debug LEDs on the front, somehow telling me that there is an error with the system memory also known as RAM. Hum. Okay, they must be incompatible with the previously inserted ones. I took the "old" ones out, powered on again. Same issue.

What...

New ones out, old ones back in. Power on. Works. Damn.
I bought the wrong ones :-( More than 100 Euro for nothing but the fan speeding up, down, and up again...

I needed new memory, however. So I asked for a quote at DELL, which made me even unhappier. Still way too expensive... I'd give it another try, I thought. So I put the new RAM onto eBay again, eventually losing some money. (I did, I know in between, lose 15 Euro) I looked into the guide, some forum, the DELL support pages and several other resources and was 99% convinced that I needed 2 pieces of KVR1333D3E9S/2G, and nothing else. I bought them, received them, put them in, powered on, smiled.
"System memory has changed.
6GB system memory available"


Yesssss!

For those of you who have a DELL PowerEdge T110 around July 2010: use Kingston :)