Lenovo System x3550 M5 - Memory Problems

Table12.Keyboard,mouse,orUSB-device'ssymptomsandactions(continued)
•FollowthesuggestedactionsintheorderinwhichtheyarelistedintheActioncolumnuntiltheproblemis
solved.
•Ifanactionstepisprecededby“(Trainedtechnicianonly),”thatstepmustbeperformedonlybyatrained
technician.
•GototheSupportWebsiteathttp://www.lenovo.com/supporttocheckfortechnicalinformation,hints,
tips,andnewdevicedriversortosubmitarequestforinformation.
SymptomAction
•ThemouseoptionisenabledintheSetupUtility.
2.IfyouareusingaUSBmouseorUSBdeviceanditisconnectedtoaUSB
hub,disconnectthemouseorUSBdevicefromthehubandconnectitdirectly
totheserver.
3.ReplacethemouseorUSB-device.
Memoryproblems
Usethisinformationtosolvememoryproblems.
Table13.Memoryproblemsandactions
•FollowthesuggestedactionsintheorderinwhichtheyarelistedintheActioncolumnuntiltheproblemis
solved.
•Ifanactionstepisprecededby“(Trainedtechnicianonly),”thatstepmustbeperformedonlybyatrained
technician.
•GototheSupportWebsiteathttp://www.lenovo.com/supporttocheckfortechnicalinformation,hints,
tips,andnewdevicedriversortosubmitarequestforinformation.
SymptomAction
Theamountofsystemmemory
thatisdisplayedislessthan
theamountofinstalledphysical
memory.
Note:EachtimeyouinstallorremoveaDIMM,youmustdisconnecttheserverfrom
thepowersource;then,wait10secondsbeforerestartingtheserver.
1.Makesurethat:
•NoerrorLEDsarelitontheoperatorinformationpanel.
•NoDIMMerrorLEDsarelitonthesystemboard.
•Memorymirroredchanneldoesnotaccountforthediscrepancy.
•Thememorymodulesareseatedcorrectly.
•Youhaveinstalledthecorrecttypeofmemory.
•Ifyouchangedthememory,youupdatedthememoryconfigurationinthe
SetupUtility.
•Allbanksofmemoryareenabled.Theservermighthaveautomatically
disabledamemorybankwhenitdetectedaproblem,oramemorybank
mighthavebeenmanuallydisabled.
•Thereisnomemorymismatchwhentheserverisattheminimummemory
configuration.
2.ReseattheDIMMs,andthenrestarttheserver.
3.CheckthePOSTerrorlog:
•IfaDIMMwasdisabledbyasystems-managementinterrupt(SMI),replace
theDIMM.
•IfaDIMMwasdisabledbytheuserorbyPOST,reseattheDIMM;then,run
theSetupUtilityandenabletheDIMM.
4.CheckthatallDIMMsareinitializedintheSetupUtility;then,runmemory
diagnostics(see“RunningtheDSAPrebootdiagnosticprograms”onpage68).
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