Dell R610 memory configuration for all 12 slots

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Published on 2014-06-10T02:24:58Z Indexed on 2014/06/10 3:28 UTC
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I purchased 12 sticks of RAM on eBay to go into a Dell R610 server. The RAM is ECC REG PC3-12800 DDR3-1600 yet when I occupy all 12 slots with this ram I get the following error on boot:

MEMORY Initialization Warning: Memory Size May be Reduced MEMBIST failure – The following DIMM has been disabled by Bios: DIMM B2 MEMBIST failure – The following DIMM has been disabled by Bios: DIMM B5

I am using all of the latest versions, BIOS, etc. I am using 2 x x5660 processors.

What is causing this issue and is it correctable?

If this RAM is incorrect what is correct to maximize the RAM on this server?

Thank you.

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