Help with hardware set up

chex · 9 Dec 2015 at 07:07

I got a used workstation after a long time of owning only apple laptops.

It's a Dell T5500, 2x Xeon E5620, 1x 16G RAM module, 1x 2GB RAM module to activate the second CPU, Nvidia Quadro 2000.

Questions:

- Is the 2GB RAM module for CPU #2 too small? Not sure how it works.
- The GPU is not in a PCI x16 slot, would moving it to a faster slot make a difference?

Any other comments about how to set up hardware?

chex · 11 Dec 2015 at 10:27

Yea, the second CPU is on a riser card with it's own RAM slots.

Another issue - it has 2x 250GB HDD installed but only one shows up in file manager/disk management.

I suspected it was set up as a RAID mirror but 'drives' section in the BIOS also shows only one HDD. 'SATA operation' is set to RAID Autodetect or AHCI. How can I tell if it's a functioning RAID set up or if there's a dud HDD?

chex · 12 Dec 2015 at 16:01

It doesn't show in disk management, which is suppsedly normal for whichever raid is for mirroring drives.

chex · 21 Dec 2015 at 19:48

Thanks, will try unplugging and booting.