[rescue] memory trade, anyone? (and misc. x86 rambling)

Dan Sikorski rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Nov 13 14:19:04 CST 2001


On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 15:04, Big Endian wrote:
> >  >My guess is that ECC modules MUST be run at the speed that they are
> >>intended to run at, unlike their non-ECC bretheren.  Does that make
> >  >sense? 
> >
> The thing is not all PC motherboards support/like ECC.  The ECC is 
> whats killing you.  If you have an ECC capable board (most athlon/P4 
> boards) then it will work fine.  A lot of older PC boards P3 and 
> below didn't support ECC.

Unfortunately, that isn't the case. both the funky micron, and the SD-11
support ECC, but act as though there's nothing there when that memory is
in them.

	-Dan 




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