[cisco-voip] CCM 4.1(3) does not boot after RAM upgrade to 1 GB

[Jonathan Charles]

Well, if there is a bad chunk of RAM on the DIMM it could cause the system
to blue screen...



Jonathan

On 4/2/07, Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> AFAIK Cisco doesn't even sell memory for MCS servers, we tell you to
> buy it from IBM or HP directly.
>
> I know the HP servers at least are extremely picky about their
> memory.  Most of the time they won't even POST though.
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Apr 1, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Ted Nugent wrote:
>
> No they do not prevent you from using 3rd party
> memory. However it's possible that you got some bad or
> incompatible memory, although this is typically caught
> in POST I've seen stranger things. If you remove the
> new RAM and boot the system does it boot ok? If not
> the memory upgrade is probably not related to the
> issue.
> I typically buy RAM from Crucial.com or at least use
> that to find the RAM I need, some advice, don't
> purchase bottom barrel RAM to save a few bucks for
> your production server, spend the extra $ for quality
> RAM just don't go over board and buy it from Cisco,
> that's just crazy. My $0.02
>
>
>
> --- Muqeemuddin Syed <muqeems at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We have a Call Manager cluster of one publisher and
> > one subscriber running
> > CCM 4.1(3). Both the CCM are on a Cisco MCS 7825.
> >
> > We ordered for an additional 1 GB RAM to upgrade the
> > physical memory on the
> > publisher (it was consuming over 70% of Memory for
> > the SQL process alone).
> > When we restarted the CCM after adding the 1 GB RAM,
> > the CCM fails to load
> > even the Operating System. We get an error that a
> > file is corrupt or
> > missing.
> > Has anyone faced similar situation. Does Cisco lock
> > customers from
> > performing memory upgrades to force customers to buy
> > the bigger MCS boxes?
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