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Ripperoo
May 21, 2011Aspirant
Ultra 4 Plus Memory Upgrade Advice Needed
I finally got myself a ReadyNAS 'Ultra 4 Plus' after what seems like an eternity. Got it for what I thought at the time was a decent price around two weeks ago for £418 and no it's dropped again t...
ewickham
Feb 14, 2014Aspirant
Thanks for the BIOS upgrade applet. I applied it and confirmed new BIOS version
11/02/2011 ReadyNAS-ProUltra2 V1.8
Unfortunately, the 2GB memory still doesn't POST. I installed lshw, which had this to report about the current 1MB module.
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 9
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 1GB
capacity: 2GB
*-bank
description: SODIMM Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
product: ModulePartNumber00
vendor: Manufacturer00
physical id: 0
serial: SerNum00
slot: DIMM0
size: 1GB
width: 64 bits
clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
BIOS and Motherboard are reported as follows
readynas-1
description: Desktop Computer
product: ReadyNAS
vendor: NETGEAR
version: 11/02/2011 ReadyNAS-ProUltra2 V1.8
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6
configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop uuid=00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
*-core
description: Motherboard
vendor: NETGEAR
physical id: 0
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
physical id: 0
version: 080016 (11/02/2011)
size: 64KB
capacity: 1984KB
capabilities: isa pci pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int1
0video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
Any additional suggestions to resolve this upgrade issue are appreciated.
11/02/2011 ReadyNAS-ProUltra2 V1.8
Unfortunately, the 2GB memory still doesn't POST. I installed lshw, which had this to report about the current 1MB module.
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 9
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 1GB
capacity: 2GB
*-bank
description: SODIMM Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
product: ModulePartNumber00
vendor: Manufacturer00
physical id: 0
serial: SerNum00
slot: DIMM0
size: 1GB
width: 64 bits
clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
BIOS and Motherboard are reported as follows
readynas-1
description: Desktop Computer
product: ReadyNAS
vendor: NETGEAR
version: 11/02/2011 ReadyNAS-ProUltra2 V1.8
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6
configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop uuid=00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
*-core
description: Motherboard
vendor: NETGEAR
physical id: 0
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
physical id: 0
version: 080016 (11/02/2011)
size: 64KB
capacity: 1984KB
capabilities: isa pci pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int1
0video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
Any additional suggestions to resolve this upgrade issue are appreciated.
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