Re: Problem with 2500's

From: Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 04:25:12 EDT


Hi,

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:55:02PM -0300, Marcelo M. Sosa Lugones wrote:
> Today i tried to upgrade 2 2500s (2501 and 2511) cause we have bought some
> memory and wanted to try IOS 12.2 (1 8mb flash and 2 16 dram modules), but
> when i put any 16mb dram module, the cisco sees it as 8mb dram module. I
> have tried in both ciscos with both modules, with no success. The memory is
> Kingston, i don't have the part number right now, but it was something very
> obviusly that it was a 16 megs. Also i looked at the chips and made a search
> on google and it seems to have 16megs, so i am thinking about a hardware
> failure... Any hints?

2500s are extremely picky about DRAM - if they don't like it, they will
recognize it as 8Mb or not at all. Make sure that it's not only "generic
Kingston", but "*for Cisco 2500*".

gert

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