The new memory sticks for HAL came in yesterday, and I installed them this morning. In one of those truly infuriating turns of events unique to complex machinery, HAL decided that as long as one of the new sticks was in any DIMM slot, it would just reboot at the end of the memory check. Can't even open the BIOS with one of the new sticks in there. I spent about 90 minutes with the mainboard manual, Dell's website, and Google trying to figure out why the sticks were being rejected (the canned answer "defective memory" seems unlikely, given that there were two pairs of modules from two different packages with identical behavior.) After an hour and a half, I reinstalled the original memory modules and restarted the machine with success, so at least I didn't break the working configuration, but I am now following up on what might be wrong with the matching of these modules and this computer. More as that situation develops.(For reference, HAL9000 is a Dell PowerEdge T105. It is no longer produced, but the manual is still available online. The memory is PNY Optima matched 2GB sticks.)
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