I have a T30 that works very well with non-ECC UDIMM DDR4 memory. We recently picked up a few T130 servers on a good deal. Considering the T30 and T130 use the same CPU series and use the exact same chipset, we expected that memory that works in the T30 would work in the T130. But that is not the case.
When I take the non-ECC UDIMM memory out of the T30 and put it in the T130, it immediately shows a screen saying the memory is incompatible. It seems that the system will ONLY work with ECC UDIMMS.
Since the T30 and T130 are identical CPU and chipset systems, does Dell program the T130 to fail with non-ECC memory?
What other reason could there be that non-ECC works in the T30 but not in the T130? The problem is, this ECC UDIMM memory required in the T130 is sort of uncommon and rare. And expensive. For a low-end server, why require expensive, odd-ball memory?
Did the T130 ever accept non-ECC and Dell modified the BIOS at some point to fail with them?