Question Dell Optiplex 9020 which ram slots for 2 modules?

[jamesdsimone]

Hey is it better specs or lesser?

Worse of course I have the 9020 Mini Tower and they sent the small form factor board which has one PCIe slot instead of 2. I might be able to get it to work but that's not the point.

 

[jamesdsimone]

They are shipping yet another board.

 

[jamesdsimone]

Board is here but now having a problem with the new PS.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Well, can't say you didn't find a project.

 

[jamesdsimone]

Well, can't say you didn't find a project.

I know right. I had put this power supply in it and it worked fine so the 24 to 8 pin power cable is ok. I pulled it so I could use the EVGA in another system and replaced it with the Thermaltake. The system powers on and all the fans spin up but the system won't post. It gives this LED error code. Pulled one of the memory modules and it posted. Just glad it wasn't an incompatible power supply. So once again some memory issue. I'm doing a CPU stress test, ie running Handbrake which runs all 4 cores and 8 threads at 100% for a couple hours. Then I'll check the other memory module. Then replace the MB. Fun.

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two blinks followed by a short pause, three blinks, long pause, then repeats.​

Bad Motherboard, Memory, or Processor​

If you can troubleshoot, narrow down the issue by reseating the memory and swapping a known working memory module, if available. If nothing works, replace the motherboard, memory, or processor.

https://www.newegg.com/evga-supernova-nex750g-gold-120-pg-0750-gr-750w/p/N82E16817438006

https://www.newegg.com/thermaltake-spd-750ah2clb-750-w/p/N82E16817153455?Item=N82E16817153455

 

[jamesdsimone]

Exciting update got everything switched out. I took the opportunity to remove the hard drive cage and remount it higher so now I can use a much longer video card. It posted ok but wouldn't boot saying it couldn't find the OS. I got into BIOS and it is indeed showing dual channel memory with the modules in slots 1 and 2. Now just to figure out how to get it to boot. The biggest take away from this is I'll unlikely ever try to upgrade a Dell. Dell sucks in pretty much every way. They go out of their way to make it difficult to upgrade so they are pretty much A holes. I literally had to use a hammer, drill and Dremel tool to get it out. The HP I got looks much easier, a lot more space in the case. Then on to the Lenovo. The Z420 I think I'll use to transcode.

 

[jamesdsimone]

After rooting around in the BIOS finally found the problem. Apparently the board came default to boot to Legacy mode switched to UEFI mode and it booted to desktop. So everything in running to specs, finally.