Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've been reading spec sheets, and they often don't tell you, which is
rather annoying. Thus my question.
I just randomly selected 2 motherboards from 2 different vendors and
on both spec sheets, they clearly defined which memory they took.
Oh, sheets will tell you that they *take* ECC memory, but long
experience says that the motherboards that actually properly do ECC
scrubbing are a subset -- some boards will accept the extra ECC bits
and do nothing with them! Generally speaking, the only reliable way
Heh... you want motherboards that work? Different question :(
I've found to determine if the ECC stuff works is to look at the BIOS
ECC settings, but often that info seems to be missing from the
manuals.
Sadly, the bios ECC settings on a number of MB's appear to be busted in
some cases ... well, ok, the bios setup of the ECC system appears to be
busted. At least most will signal an MCE these
Anyway, I was asking for a reason. :)
Heh ... which MBs are you considering, or conversely, which ones are you
trying to deal with?
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