Proliant 800-(P14) Too much memory???

[Peter Bellone]

I purchased and installed 4 256mb pieces of Compaq registered RAM. It installed fine and booted after POST. I am experiencing frequent lockups now. I havent been able to find a utility from MS that stresses the memory. I used it before and it worked fine to locate bad pieces. I also noticed the manual states only up to 128mb pieces which equates to 512mb max. I thought I saw a revision for 1gb of RAM for this hardware. Can someone direct me to the answer? Possible a BIOS ROMPAQ that may resolve. Thanks, Pete

[Igor Karasik]

Peter,
we use Proliant 800 with 2*500 CPU and 1 Gb RAM without any problems (11/08/2000, Family 386P14 BIOS)
Make sure you have last server BIOS. Make sure you have last Proliant support pack installed
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/23836.html

Anything interesting in Event viewer and in HP Integrated management viewer?
You probably can use http://www.memtest86.com/
or
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
as well

[Peter Bellone]

Thanks Igor, my bios date is the same. nothing special in log just yet. I did run the partition utilities to test mem but got impatient and rebooted after 45 minutes and only 2/3 done. I will try links for mem test. Pete