[Blind-sysadmins] Motherboards (was: Hardware refresher: speaking as a blind person)

I actually tried buying different brands of motherboards and came back to Asus. I was hoping to find a brand that sent the owner's manual in an accessible format. Never did find one. But I guess I've just found that Asus mobos are reliable and easy to work with. I wrote up a motherboard topographical specification protocol a few years ago. It was intended to be a way to describe where the different connectors are on a mobo and how they are aligned. It came out of a discussion I had on a hardware hobbyist email list. People were trying to tell me where on my mobo the searial port header block was and which was pin #1. It was easy enough to find a picture of the mobo on-line but that didn't help me. On 10/12/2015 09:53 AM, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:

Hi. Yep unless you mix and match, you shouldn't have any issues. Most people don't even notice to be honest, I didn't know until the first one I started working on began beeping. I was sat there racking my brains and the only thing that seemed different was the brand. Best thing to do is try it if you have some spare sticks. Some dell boards are fine some aren't which is a real shame. My favourite boards are asus, they couldn't care less in most cases what brand you use.

All the best,

Mo.

"John G. Heim" wrote:

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Wow, thanks. I've been working on Dell servers for years and never knew

about the different slots. We almost never buy 2 different kinds of ram

for our machines so I guess it never came up before.

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Hi.

In dell machines, the sticks in the black slots have to match and the ones in the white slots have to match. Make sure the ram is the same spec i.e ddr2, ddr3 etc. Normally the config is black white black white. When you say you were struggling to insert it, what was the

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All the best,

Mo.

Katherine Moss wrote:

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Hello all, Just had a rather embarrassing moment yesterday when I attempted to insert some new ram modules into my server and then realized shortly afterward that either, I don't know how the heck to do it anymore, or I'm too skittish to, due to last year's events (had a particular

On 10/12/2015 09:41 AM, Mobeen Iqbal wrote: problem specifically? If its not seating properly, check the notch and contacts are lining up correctly. I am totally blind and have seldom had any issues with ram in dell machines, but some as you say can be pigs to work on and can be very fiddly especially if there is not much clearance. I have also known dells to be picky about the brand of memory. Its also not recommended to mix ecc and non ecc ram. person

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in my life who thought he knew it all, and for him, teaching me and nurturing my tech interests was not in the cards.) Well, so as blind individuals, how do we insert ram modules properly? (I, or rather my father, added eight gigabytes to the existing four, though now only two slots appear to be filled.) They must not be seated properly, because he, fully sighted, was struggling with it as well. If it helps, the model server I have is a Dell PowerEdge T110, and from what I've heard, that board's a pain in the butt to work with. When working with ram as a blind person, is a motherboard a motherboard? Or are they all different? And not to mention the color codes? (this particular board has black and white slots.) _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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