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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2008
Tu T. Dang, Cary, NC (US);
Robert F. Kantner, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Henry G. Mcmillan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Carl A. Morrell, Cary, NC (US);
Challis L. Purrington, Raleigh, NC (US);
Mark W. Williams, Apex, NC (US);
Tu T. Dang, Cary, NC (US);
Robert F. Kantner, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Henry G. McMillan, Raleigh, NC (US);
Carl A. Morrell, Cary, NC (US);
Challis L. Purrington, Raleigh, NC (US);
Mark W. Williams, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for enabling memory module slots in a computing system after a repair action, the computing system having a plurality of memory module slots and having at least one memory module installed in one of the memory module slots, that includes: determining, during a boot process for the computing system, whether any of the memory module slots are disabled; and if any of the memory module slots are disabled: retrieving, for each memory module installed in one of the memory module slots, a memory module identifier for that memory module, retrieving, from non-volatile memory of the computing system, previously stored memory module identifiers, determining whether the retrieved memory module identifiers match the previously stored memory module identifiers, and enabling the disabled memory module slots if the retrieved memory module identifiers do not match the previously stored memory module identifiers.